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A NEW EGG PLANT, “EXCELSIOR TREE” | a= 
After studying and watching this unusally fine egg plant for several years, I at last procured | 
a stock of the seed, and offered it for the first time in 1901. This variety attracts attention 
wherever grown. It is of large size and extremely good shape, being particularly adapted to | 
slicing, as there is no waste of material. In flavor it is simply superb and cannot be surpassed. | 
The hot sun does not blight the blossom, as is the case with some other sorts. It resists drought 
and bad weather to a wonderful degree, partly on account of its strong, upright growth. It 
bears its eggs or fruit sometimes two to four feet above the ground, thus escaping liability to 
rot. I am satisfied that Excelsior Tree Egg Plant is superior to any other kind now grown. | 
The fruit often measures 18 to 24 inches in circumference (six_to eight inches in diameter). A} 
single plant at times will produce eighteen fine eggs. No market or private gardener 
should fail to try Excelsior Tree Egg Plant this year. Packet, 15 cents; 2 packets, 25 cents. 
I will pay this amount November Ist, 1902, for 
the heaviest and best shaped Excelsior Tree Egg 
Plant grown and sent me, charges prepaid, 
raised by one of my customers the coming season, 
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New Cherry Black Egg Plant. 
| An Extra Early Variety That Recommends 
Itself to all Growers of This Im- 
portant Vegetable. 
The New Cherry Black originated in Soutb 
| Jersey with a very prominent trucker, who has 
grown it fora number of years. It combines in 
itself many characteristics which are very valu- 
able in this vegetable. In the first place it is 
very early, in fact the earliest good market vari- 
ety. By this I mean it is the earliest variety that 
gro ws to a good size suitable for market pur- 
poses. Then again it is.very desirable in color, 
being a jet black, much the color of the Black 
Pekin. Shapeis well shown in illustration here- 
with; average weight 2to 3 pounds. It is dwarf 
growing and bears its fruit well from the ground. 
I believe this variety will be offered by many 
seedsmen this season under different names, but 
I think the name Cherry Black about as good as 
any, as it so well describes the color of the fruit. 
For sale in small quantities only. 
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THE PEER OF ANY SORT THAT GROWS. 
In table quality this lettuce is perfection itself. It is wholly free from 
This is the most popular lettuce on my List, and its superior is not on | I 
bitter taste, having a sweet and rich flavor, even to the outer leaves. It 
the market. It is not new in name, but I claim that itis steadily im- 
proving in quality, from year to year, under the influence of high culture 
and rigid selection. Itis a white-seeded lettuce of American origin, es- 
pecially adapted to open-air culture in American soil and climate. 
Maule’s Improved Hanson is a cabbage-headed lettuce of beautiful 
color, neither pale green nor rank dark green, but of an intermediate 
The edges of the leaves are slightly fringed, and the leaves themselves 
are crumpled but not really savoyed. The head proper is hard, tender 
of this lettuce have been known to attain a weight of five pounds. 
abc size is quite large. And with the exception of New Rosette it 
passed through the trying ordeals of last summer better than any other. 
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and attractive shade, making a pleasing picture on the market stall. | 
and crisp, with a white or blanched appearance at the centre. The heads | 
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remains long in good table condition after reaching maturity, and re- 
sists heat and drought well, and is very slow to run to seed. Its ability 
to avoid both toughness and rankness and to remain sweet and tender, 
is one of its leading characteristics; in fact, this feature distinguishes 
Maule’s Improved from the ordinary stocks of Hanson lettuce. 
This lettuce is particularly adapted to market gardening purposes. It 
is a perfect open-air lettuce in all respects, for both amateur and pro- 
fessional gardeners. It is hardy, and may be set out in earliest spring 
or grown late in the fall. In cool weather or warm it isa thoroughly re- 
liable and satisfactory sort. Every year increases the already wide 
demand for my Improved strain of Hanson, and no lettuce has a wider 
American popularity. Pkt., 10 cts; oz., 20 cts; 44 lb., 50 cts: lb., $1.50. 
