WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Vegetable Seed Novelties — 11 



THE NEW DAVIS PERFECT CUCUMBER. 



The New Davis Perfect Cucumber 



Plant the Davis Perfect, and you will raise in the open 

 ground, cucumbers that will sell in any market at same 

 price as the high priced hot house forcing cucumbers. 



Mr. Davis needs no introduction; as the originator of the 

 Davis Wax Bean and Grand Rapids Forcing Lettuce, he has 

 a reputation as a market gardener for linowing what is what, 

 second to none. Mr. Davis has for years been forcing cucum- 

 bers under glass for the Chicago and Detroit markets, and it 

 has been his ambition to produce a cucumber that would be 

 as handsome in appearance and sell as well grown in 

 the ordinary way in the open ground. He has at last suc- 

 ceeded in perfecting a cucumber that beats anything I have 

 ever seen ; Davis Perfect is bound to become the most 

 popular cucumber both for forcing under glass and growing 

 outside, for the following reasons : 



First. It has an ideal shape, and the handsomest color of 

 all cucumbers. 



Second. It is a type of the most perfect size. 



Third. Eating qualities surpass anything I have ever tried. 



Fourth. It is almost seedless one-third of its length from 

 the stem end, and the seeds when it is in slicing condition 

 are so small and tender that they are unnoticed. 



Fifth. It is enorcQously productive, in fact, beats anything 

 I have ever tried. 



Sixth. It does not change its dark, rich color when grown 

 outdoors; in fact, it resembles a hothouse cucumber so closely 

 that dealers cannot tell the difference, and are willing to pay 

 as much for it as the hothouse production. Mr. Davis has 

 tried every strain of new cucumber that has been intro- 

 duced in the last few years ; while a number of them have 



been very good, he is frank in saying that his cucumber beal» 

 anything he has ever tried, and other growers in Grand 

 Rapids are of the same opinion. The facts boiled down are 

 simply these: I believe this Is the greatest cucumber ever 

 introduced, and it is bound to become popular everywhere 

 when it is known. Local market gardeners in Grand Rapids, 

 Mr. Davis' home, who make a specialty of growing cucumbers 

 under glass, have tried in vain to get this seed to sow in the 

 open ground. It will be a big money maker for anyone 

 engaged in growing cucumbers in the open ground, for Mr. 

 Davis could have sold the cucumbers represented in this seed 

 crop for more than double the price of any outdoor grown 

 cucumber on the market. Mr. Davis sold Davis Perfect for 

 ?r.00 a bushel, both in the Grand Rapids market and Chi- 

 cago, at the same time the best of the other outdoor grown 

 cucumbers were bringing 40 to 50 cents. The dealers who 

 handled these cucumbers for Mr. Davis wanted him to ship 

 them in large quantities, as they could sell at $1.00 all he 

 could send them, no matter how large the quantity. It stands 

 to reason a cucumber that can be grown outdoors and resem- 

 bles a hot house cucumber so closely that the trade will pay 

 the same price they are paying for the hot house product is 

 worth a great deal, and it is. I predict the greatest sale any 

 cucumber novelty has ever had for the new Davis Perfect, 

 and every grower, whether for home consumption or for 

 market, to be n breast of the times, must plant this variety. 



Further comment seems unnecessary. 

 Packet, ID cents; ounce, 25 cents; quarter pound, 75 cents; pound, $2.50. 



promptness with which you fill my orders. The Davis Perfect Cucumbers are tine 

 in shape, beautiful in color, delicious flavor; the most prolific I have ever planted. 



Huso KUmb. Afton, Mo.— There is no question that the Davis Perfect le one of 

 the best cucumbers on the market. It was the finest fruit I ever had, and I have 

 planted every kind that was worth tryinR. The beauty of it is that it keeps its 

 color so long. I had full grown cucumbers that lay in the field In days, and then 

 were so green I took them to market and received 60 cents a Dasket for them, 

 when other cucumbers only brought 50 cents a box; besides we had a droimhi oi 

 3 weeks, and my other cucumbers dried up, while these jus: :zcpt on growing and 

 bearing. I for one will plant it every year. 



B. M A. Scott, Baxter Springs, Mo.— I sent you an order for ?7.00 worth of 

 garden seeds the past spring, among them the New Davis Perfect Cucumber. The 

 cucumbers were a lovely dark green color that I never saw before, except in the 

 hothouse vegetable, and mine were grown in the open ground and never even liad 

 a hothed; most all of thera measured 10 inches long, and a great many HJj inches. 

 My Earliest of All Toiuatoes were the earliest of any in the country. Harris' Ear- 

 liest Watermelon is fine and very early. I have never had any seeds equal to 

 Maule's, and when my neighbors ask me how I have such success, my answer 

 Is invariably the same— Why 1 bought my seeds from Wm. Henry Maule. 



Wm. Bigham. Atoka, Ind Ter.— I am well pleased with your seeds and the 



