26 — Vegetable Seed Novelties 



THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1907 



THE LUPTON CABBAGE 



THE CELEBMTED 



LUPTON CABBAGE. 



k Grand leading Main Crop Sort of my Introduction 

 The Only Real Rival of the Famed Surehead. 



The LuptOn cabbage began its career in 1888, on 

 tbe eastern end of Long Island, in an extensive 

 cabbage growing district. The originator, -whose 

 name the cabbage bears, is undoubtedly the largest 

 grower of first class cabbage seed In America and 

 every prominent seed firm in the country considers 

 liim an authority on this important subject. In 

 the autumn of 1888 a single specimen of a new 

 strain of cabbage was found growing as a sport 

 in a field of Late Flat Dutch. Mr. Lupton, whose 

 long experience qualifies him to act as an e.xpert 

 judge, at once recognized a prize in the new sort, 

 and thus the Lupton cabbage had Its origin. 



Lupton has some of the best traits of Surehead, 

 with the size and general shape of Maule's Prize 

 Flat Dutch, but is several days earlier than the 

 latter. Its growth is jiarticularly strong and vig- 

 orous. Its color is a dark bluish green, indicating 

 robust constitution and healthy development. 

 The leaves are broad and well filled out to their 

 juncture with the stem. The stem is short, and 

 broad under the head, but tapers almost to a 

 I oint where it enters the ground. ■ The head is 

 tliick and flat, with the outer leaves covering it 

 well across the centre: It is very large, solid, and 

 of the most excellent quality and flavor, without 

 any features of coarseness, the veins and ribs be- 

 ing well developed, but not prominent. 



It matures about a week in advance of the vari- 

 ous strains of Late Flat Dutch, is an excellent 

 keeper, and for all purposes of the farmer and gar- 

 dener makes with Surehead the two best main 

 crop cabbages now on the market. 



Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 30 cents; 

 14 pound, $1.00; pound, $3.00. 



THOMAS LAXTON PEA. 



This new pea was originated by crossing Gradus with a very early 

 seedling. It is claimed to be earlier, hardier in constitution, of better 

 color, and more prolific than (4radus or Prosperity. It grows like | 

 Oradus about :■<■ feet high. The pods are laige. l<ln^^ with square ends | 



THOMAS LAXTON PEA. 



Mrs. N. A. Brown. Pawnee City, Neb.— We have planted your seeds for the past 

 18 years, and the.v are unequalled. Your 1906 Specialties were grand. 



A. M. Jennings, Salida, Col.— Have planted your seed for about 8 years. They 

 are the very best best mone.y can buy, and have always given perfect satisfaction. 



Henry Evans, Plattsburg, Mo.— 1 have been using your seeds for over '2.5 years, 

 and they have been very satisfactory; I write to let you know of my appreciation 

 and the good they have done. 



0. Shelton. Calhoun, Ky.— I have used your seecls. and made up orders and clubs 

 for you in different States, with great success, for about 25 years. 



Ellen Smith, Princeton, W. Va.— I have been using your seeds for 20 years, and 

 they are unexcelled in America. Your 1906 Specialties were extra good. I raised 

 the finest beets, beans, sweet corn, peppers and tomatoes in this neighborhood. 



6. H. Little, Eureka, Kan.— Used your seeds for 21 years; they are extra good. 



Henry Werrbach, New Frankfort. Mo.— I have used your seeds about 25 years, 

 and tin'd them good; if I had not thought so well of them would not have been a 

 customer all these .years. 



Chas, S..-Bird, Muscatine, Iowa.— I have used your seeds for 20 years; they have 

 always been good, and true to name. I consider you a square firm to deal with. 



and uniformly well filled. The wrinkled green peas are very large, 

 fine color and of unsurpassed quality. Many market gardeners have 

 planted the Thomas Laxton in preference to Gradns, to their entire 

 satisfaction. My opinion of Thomas Laxton is that it is not as early 



as Gradus by three or four days; at 

 the same time It is, if anything, 

 more productive, peas are fully as 

 large, of a richer green color. 

 Planted side by side, it is frequent- 

 ly a hard matter to tell which is 

 the better of the two varieties. 



Packet, 10 cents; pint, 2.5 cents; 



quart, 45 cents, postpaid. 



By express or freight, not prepaid, 



peck, S2.2.5; bushel, S8.0U. 



S. B. Smith, Arvada, Wj-o.- 1 have used your seeds, and my father also has 

 planted them for 16 years, and we consider them the test that money can buy. 



E. A. Compton. Coalinga. Cal.— I have used your seeds for 28 years, and. know 

 there are no seeds like them. 



Wesley Griftith, Olive. Ind. Ter.— I have used your garden seeds for the last 25 

 years, and have always found them just as represented. 



N. Anderson, Sylvia, Kan.— In the spring I sent you a small order, and got 60 

 cents worth of premium in specialties in flower and vegetaUe seeds. I have had 

 beautiful flowers all summer, and the vegetables did surprisingly well. I have 

 used Maule's Seeds for over 20 years for market and private garden, and have 

 done well raising clubs for them. 



Sarah A. Hefflebower, Osceola, Neb— I have used your seeds for nearly 20 years, 

 and there is no better garden than mine in Nebraska; I always have plentj- and to 

 spare. When I bought other seeds I was sure to fail. 



Mrs. W. P. Huffman, Wakenda, Mo.— I have planted your seeds for 20 years 

 with perfect satisfaction, and believe they are the test ever put before the public. 



Mrs. A. Coon, Campbellsport, Wis.— I have used your seeds for 20 years, and they 

 have always given excellent satisfaction. I could not ask for any to grow better. 



THE WELSH ONION. ^ 



My old friend Mr. Greiner had this to say about ~\ 

 this bunch onion last summer: — "In the new bunch frS\ 

 ■onion culture, I am figuring out the gross retui-ns <s:jfs 

 from one-sixth acre to be fully 51,000, nine-tenths of it 

 being clear profit. Fig. 1 shows a bunch as given 

 in the Cyclopedia of .American Horticulture. I 

 find this onion hardy as an oak, and the sugges- 

 tion of a bulb makes it suitable for a bunch onion. 

 A bunch, such as we made them and found ready 

 sale for them, is shown in Fig. 2. These bunches 

 were quite attractive, and coming in a season 

 when green stuff is scarce, extremely serviceable 

 for the purposes of a bunch onion. We put about 

 ten stalks to the bundle, or twice as many as found 

 in the averaGre bunch in the market. We could 

 toave disposed of a good nian.v more than we had, 

 even in our local market, and BufTalo and the 



WELSH ONION. 



smaller cities nearby would gladly have taken large 

 quantities. Where the plants stood fairly thick in 

 the row (as thlcli as we should aim to have them, 

 and as we can get them by sowing 6 or 8 pounds of 

 seed to the acre, on rich ground) we Uiade four 

 dozen bunches from 6 feet of row, the rows being 14 

 inches apart. When a spot of ground 14 Inches 

 wide by feet long brings one dollar, you can easily 

 figure out that the acre rate is fully Sti.OOO, less than 

 one-tenth of which goes for labor In preparing 

 (cleaning, and bunching) the product for market. 

 The expenses of growing the crop are comparative- 

 ly slight. I like to sow seed in spring or early 

 summer, not in the fall.' Mr. Greiner reports great 

 difficulty in securing good seed of the Welsh onion. 

 He advised me of the matter and while in Europe 

 I managed to secure a supply, which I take pleasure 

 in offering to my customers. 

 Pkt., 10 cents; oz , 25 cents; H lb., 75 cents; lb., $2.50. 



