MAULE’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1902 27 
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New Chinese Giant Pepper LS re 
I AM AS MUCH IMPRESSED WITH 
THIS NEW PEPPER AS EVER. 
Last year my customers will remember I offered 
a prize of $50.00 for the largest Pepper of either 
Chinese Giant or Ruby King. The Chinese Giant 
got the money, witha magnificent pepper, weigh- 
ing 17 ounces sent me by Mr. Abel Steel, Ferguson, 
Ont., Canada, to whom I sent my check for $50.00, 
with a great deal of pleasure. Ruby King was 
four or five ounces behind, in fact almost left at 
the post as far as size is concerned. 
Iam anxious to see how large a Chinese Giant 
can be grown; with this end in view, I offer for 1902 
$150 IN THREE CASH PRIZES. 
$75.00 for the largest and best Chinese Giant Pep- 
per sent me by one of my customers on or before 
Nov. Ist, 1902—$50.00 for the second largest and best, 
and $25.00 for the third largest and best. All pep- 
pers must be sent charges prepaid, and reach me 
on or before Nov. Ist, 1902. 
I doubt very much if 17 ounces can be beaten; 
but these prizes make it worth the while of all my 
customers too see what they can do. 
Chinese Giant is certainly awonder. The plants 
are of strong stocky growth, of bushy ercct habit, 
growing 18 inches to 2 feet in height, with abun- 
5 dant foliage. The dwarf compact plants are very 
prolific, they set 3 to 4 extra large fruits at the base 
* quite early in the season, which ripens while a 
= second crop is setting on the branches. The fruit J 
is well shown in the illustration herewith, being 
quite square in appearance, while the flesh is 
= thick and very mild, being entirely free from any ff 
2 fiery flavor. I offer seed grown for me especially 
by the originator of this variety; in other words, 
= direct headquarters stock at the following rea- 
sonable prices: 
Packet, 10 cents, 3 packets, 25 cents; }4 ounce, 
40 cents; ounce, 75 cents. 
BUNKER NASA ARR, INO. AERA PAMErE Street, Philadeipnia, h’a., U.S. A. 
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i, Maule’s Improved Ruby King 
The Standard Field Pepper. 
While in size Chinese Giant knocked out Ruby King 
fae last season, in other respects I found Ruby King equally 
desirable, and in one special point, that of earliness, 
away ahead. A single plant of Maule’s Improved Ruby 
King Pepper frequently carries at one time twelve to 
weighteen very large, marketable peppers; it will be 
hard for a new variety to excel such a record. 
This pepper was introduced to the American 
public more than a decade ago, and it at once took 
conspicuous place and became the leader of the sweet 
red sorts. It has such high and numerous merits 
that I do not expect to see anything wholly replace 
it. Nevertheless, I so clearly recognized the advan- 
tages that follow selection in seed growing, that I 
have every year sought to elevate and improve this 
already good pepper. I can truthfully claim that every 
year my strain of Ruby King is better than the year 
before. I have furnished this seed to tens of thous- 
ands of gardeners, with the most satisfactory results and 
my strain of this splendid stock is now noted for per- 
fection of form, large size, brilliance of color, and sweet, . 
mild flavor. So prominent are these desirable features 
that the words ‘Maule’s Improved” are properly attached 
to the name. The Ruby King pepper attainsa larger size 
than Spanish Monstrous or any other sort excepting 
Chinese Giant, and is most excellent in every way, whether 
considered from the domestic standpoint or from the ‘position of 
the commercial gardener. It is agood home pepperand anequally 
good seller. Its flavor is so mild and pleasant that it may be 
Sliced and used as a salad, and ina variety of other ways, : 
My strain of Ruby King is so good, and grown with such extreme 
care year by year that it is hard to beat under any circumstances. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 80 cents; 14 pound, $1.00; pound, $3.59. 
on page 3 will return in a single season one 
thousand per cent. on the investment. 
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