oe MAULE’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1902 
HUNDRED-WEIGHT — 
DUMDKIN. 
THE GREAT PREMIUM TAKER. 
This extra large and handsome pumpkin is a selection from 
my Prize Potiron, the seeds being saved, year after year, only 
from specimens weighing over one hundred pounds. I intro™ 
duced this valuable mammoth sort to the public some years 
ago, and have never ceased trying to improve its-size and 
quality by most careful Selection of my own stock seed. 
The Hundred-weight Pumpkin will now surpass every other 
variety in size, specimens weighing 200 to 250 pounds being 
neither rare nor unusual. In addition to mammoth propor- 
tions this strain is of high table quality, the flesh being fine 
grained and sweet, and of a bright yellow color. The outside 
skin is of a dark salmon, and the pumpkin is therefore very 
attractive in appearance as well as in size and quality. Hun- 
dred-weight is always a’ prize winner at fairs, and invariably 
commands attention and causes comment. It is a valuable 
thing on the farm or in the garden. It produces but tew seeds 
as compared to its size, and as I reject for seed saving purposes 
all specimens weighing less than one hundred pounds it will 
be easy for my customers to realize that I can offer the seed 
only in small quantities. 
I feel able to say that Hundred-weight Pumpkin is becoming 
more and more reliable and desirable year by year, and I offer 
it with greater confidence to my customers than ever before. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 25 cents. 
Potalo Pie Pumpkin. 
A Famous Household Favorite. « 
a good thing for the kitchen, but on account of its > 
and delicate flavor will remain unimpaired. : 
This pumpkin offers an illustration of the result 
of care in selection. My stock isso well grown ,_ 
that the pumpkin is better, apparently, each year 
than the year before. It is now, however, almost ® 
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= : : Packet, 10¢.; ounce, 15c.; 44 pound, 40¢.; pound, $1.25. jm 
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A Grand Hot Weather Vegetable. BABAR is 
Iam induced to give this excellent vegetable a prominent place in — ; S 5 
my catalogue on account of its highly satisfactory behavior on my trial 
grounds at Briar Crest, and because it is so acceptable on my own 
dinner table during the hottest midsummer months, when ordinary 
Spinach is practically unobtainable. The true spinach is a cold-weather 
plant, making its best growth during autumn and spring, and even go-_ 
ing through the winter in the open ground with little or no protection. 
Everlasting or Improved New Zealand Spinach is a different plant, 
botanically, both in habit of growth and in the size and shape of its 
seeds; but in color, shape, succulence and taste of leaf it is remarkably 
like the true spinach. The latter, however, is a low growing plant 
(except when if shoots to seed), while the Everlasting sort has erect 
or branching stems. Both types of spinach are boiled and served as . 
“oreens,’’ and are appetizing and wholesome; in fact, no other vegeta- 
ble can quite take the place of Spinach. This is why Everlasting Spin- 
ach, served in midsummer, has attracted the attention and won the 
praises of visitors to my home at Briar Crest, It is an excellent vege- 
table, whether considered on its own merits or regarded as a substitute 
for the cool weather sorts. I recommend Everlasting Spinach to all 
gardeners who wish to cater to a choice summer dinner table; also, to 
market men who have customers for the ordinary spinach. The cul- 
ture is Simple and easy; merely sow in rows about three feet apart, and 
work frequently. This spinach is not entirely new. It has been on the 
market for some time but its merits are not half known. 
Packet, 16 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 144 pound, 30 cents; pound. $1.00. 
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