WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Vegetable Seeds — 3^ 



General List of Standard Vegetables, 



From this paige up to page 91 will be found the most complete 

 general list of vegetable seeds offered by any seed house in this 

 country. You will find here listed not only all the good old 

 standbys, but also many novelties and specialties of compara- 

 tively recent introduction. Many seedsmen think after their 

 novelty pages are completed, the catalogue is finished, and any 

 old thing will do for the balance of the book. I have given as 

 much care and attention to the following white pages as to the 

 preceding ones in green, and my customers will find in this gen- 

 eral list many varieties of seeds that should really be on the green 

 pages, but have been crowded out for w^ant of room. 



I \\rould again call the attention of my friends to the fact that 



this year I give away no free books or free sample packets for 

 trial. Every customer has the privilege of selectittg his own premium 

 on the basis ot 50 cents worth of seeds in pacliets for every dollars 

 worth of packets ordered. See notice 2nd cover page. In this way 

 you can secure for trial, free of cost, a packet of as many things 

 in this catalogue as you may desire, the number of packets only 

 being limited by the amount of the order in packets and ounces. 

 In past years I distributed hundreds of thousands of extra packets, 

 many of which have been of no use to the recipient, because they 

 were varieties they did not need, or that could not be grown in 

 their locality, hence were not appreciated. This year select your 

 own premium packets as per announcement on 2nd cover page. 



GREIBBI GLOBE — A table vegetable of very high merit. Peienuial. Use 

 flower buds just before full developineut. Start seed iu border and set plants 

 •1x4 feet. Protect with winter mulch north of Delaware. Pkt., lOc; oz., 3Uc. 



Culture. — 1 ounce of seed in drills will produce -lUO plants. Soak the seed. 

 Select strong one-year plants for making a plantation. Set deeply in rows 5 feet 

 " apart, 1}^ feet or more apart in row. Thi.-i will require 6,000 plants per acre. 



BAKU'S PHILADELPHIA MAMMOTH.— It throws strong, well developed shoots the entire season, 

 and always commands top notch prices in the discriminating [Philadelphia market. At three years old 

 iJarr's Mammoth has yielded at the rate of 8500 per acre. 

 Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; % pound, 20 cents; pound, 

 (iO cents. Roots, 1-year-old, 100 by mail, postpaid, $1.00. By 

 express, not prepaid, 1-year-old, $4.U0 per 1,lOJ; 2-year-old, 

 SO 00 per 1,000. 



COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH WHITE A comparatively 



new variety, with white shoots which stay white. Packet, 

 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; ]^i pound, 20 cents; pound, 60 cents. 

 Roots, 1-year-old, 100 by mail, 81.00, postpaid. By express, not 

 prepaid, 1-year-old, S4.00 per 1,000; 2-year-old, S6.00 per l.OuO. 



PALMETTO Earlier than Conovev's. Of Southern ori- 

 gin, but suitable for North also. Large and productive. 

 Packet, 5 cents.; ounce, 10 cents.; K^ pound, 20 cents; pound, 

 60 cents. Roots, 1-year-old, 100 by mail, 81.00, postpaid. By 

 express not prepaid, 1-year-old, 84.00 per 1,000; 2-year-old, 

 86.00 per 1,000. 



GIANT ARGEJVTEUIL The seed which I offer is a 



selection from imported French A_rgenteuil stock. My 

 strain is an Improvement upon the original. In the South 

 it is regarded as distinctly superior to Palmetto, and I 

 recommend it with great confidence to Northern growers. 

 One experienced grower says that Argenteuil is as mvich 

 larger than Palmetto as PaUnetto is larger than Oonover. 

 It has a I lace of its own in the New York and Boston 

 markets, and sells for 81.00 to 82.00 more per dozen bunches 

 than the best of the old sorts. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 15 cents; ^ pound, 30 cents; pound, 81.0ti. 

 1-vear-old roots, 81.00 per 100, postpaid. By express, not prepaid, 1-year-old, 75 cents per 100; 85.00 

 per 1,000. 2-Tear-old, 81.00 per 100; 86.00 per 1,000. 



BARR'S PHILADELPHIA MAMMOTH. 



DIICU nS^AM^ Mnrrai m«i>n Culture. — Beans are rather tender, and 



nUdn HlE.llNia. BREEN rDD. should not go into the open ground until 



■•*'*'■■ ■•fcl^HWI Wllkkll r WVi danger of frost is over. Of bush beans use 

 1 quart to 275 feet of drill; IJj bushels to acre. Of pole beans use 1 quart to 200 hills; 10 to 16 quarts 

 per acre. Cover bush beans 2 inches; pole beans 1 inch. Sow bush beans in drills 2 to 4 feet 

 apart; pole beans In hills 4 feet each way. Good corn land is in condition for growing a crop 

 of beans. Limas delight in soil that is made very rich by liberal manuring. 



Burpee's Strlngless Green Pod. 



The Stringless Green Pod is now one of the most popular bush 

 beans In America. In point of earliness it ranks among the first, in 

 quality it is excelled by none, and in bearing ability it stands without 

 a rival. It is unquestionably the greatest green pod bean to date. 

 As to brlttleness of pod, the point suggested by its name, its merit is so 

 high that its enthusiastic friends claim it is the only stringless bean. 



The pods are full, fleshy and nearly straight, and are borne in abund- 

 ance through a long season, beginning early. They are 5}^ to 6,^4 inches 

 in length, light green in color, very tender, and of higliest and best 

 flavor. They remain long in edible condition, and the plant or bush 

 bears continuously for weeks. This bean is unexcelled for home use, and 

 will be found very profitable for market. It has already taken great hold 

 with market gardeners, on account of its heavy cropping ability. The 

 testimony in regard to it is all In one direction and all highly flattering. 



Packet, 10 cents; pint, Ho cents; qnart. 40 cents, postpaid. By express or freight, not prepaid, peck, $1.50; bushel, S5.50. 



