MAULE’S RELIABLE ONION SEED, “¥ GREATEST SPECIALTY. 
CULTURE. Onions do best on arich loam, previously cultivated for| acre. Fine marketable size onions (according to variety planted) ars 
two years. Stiff clay and light sand are equally unfavorable. The land | easily produced the first year from early spring sown seed. Culture 
should be highly fertilized with well-rotted manure, complete fertiliz-| should be frequent though shallow. The same ground may be used for 
ers, etc. Fresh stable manure has a tendency to produce soft onions. | onions, season after season, if well fertilized annually. Bone meal isan 
Drill in #to 5 lbs. of seed per acre, one-halfinch deep. If sets are wanted, | excellent fertilizer. Winter storage demands dryness, and protection 
use 60 tg/80 lbs. of seed per acre. Six to ten bushels of sets will plant an | from sudden changes. Onions shouid never be handled while frozen. 
MAULE’S YELLOW GLOBE DANVERS. OO YC MAULE’S | 
My strain of the famous Yellow Globe Danvers Onion is unsurpassed. , 7 [7/777 Jm—__NELLOW GLOBE 
It always attains a good size, with deep bulb and small neck. Itis choice an Z DANVERS 
in flavor, being rather mild, and is invariably a market favorite at prices 
a little above average quotations. It is, in fact, the best yellow onion on 
the market, except Prizetaker. It frequently produces 6J0 bushels per 
acre, and capable of doing even better under extraculture. It is early 
and profitable, anda splendid keeper. Mystrain of Yellow Globe Dan- 
vers has been famous for the past quarter century in every onion grow- 
ing district of the United States, and there is nothing better of its kind to 
be had. There will always be a demand for Yellow Globe Danvers, and 
I can contidently assure the public that I have the best known Strain. 
In fact, I have only one strain of Globe Danvers, and deyote my energies 
to the perfection of that one. I have no second grade to sell. Since I first 
offered this improved strain of Globe Danvers I have supplied direct to 
the onion growers of America far more than 100,000 pounds of the seed, a 
record unsurpassed by any other seed house. This extensive distribution 
is in itself a testimony to the value of this strain. Packet, 5 cents; 
ounce, 10 cents; 44 pound, 25 cents; pound, 90 cents. 
ROUND DANVERS. 
This is a strain originally selected from Yellow Globe Danvers, and per- 
fected by careful breeding. Its table and market qualities are the same 
as those of its parent. It differs from Yellow Globe Danvers mainly in 
shape, being more flattened. The claim is made for it that it ripens more 
surely in moist situations than the globe-shaped sorts, and that it isa 
little earlier. It is certainly a first-class onion in yield, flavor and keep- 
ing qualities,and is a type of one of the most distinct and celebrated 
American bor Packet, 5 cts.; oz., 10 ets.; 14 ib., 25 cts.; lb., 90cts. 
OUTHPORT YELLOW GLOBE. 
Entirely distinct from onions of the Danvers type, having notable and 
peculiar characteristics of its own, especially in flavor. The fiesh is white, 
fine and mild. The bulb is large and handsome, and is alwaysa good sel- 
ler. It is a heavy cropper and good keeper. The Southport Globe onions 
are the largest of the American class. They originated at Southport, 
% Conn. My strain of the seed i 
absolutely pure. No better to 
be had at any price. Packet, 
5 cents; ounce, 10 gents;!4 pound, 
25 cents; pound, 90 cents. 
VYEXTRA EARLY RED. 
This is one of the standard 
American onions, adapting itself 
to a wide variety of soils and sit- 
uations. It will succeed in cold, 
mucky ground, where other sorts 
would fail. It matures ten days 
sooner than the Red Wethersfield, 
and inrich soils grows almost as 
large. Extra Early Red is a some- 
what flattened onion, as shown in 
the illustration. Itcan be made 
to produce fine, marketable on- 
ions in 90 days from the sowing of 
the seed. It is of mild flavor, and 
keeps well. The color is a deep 
rich red, the grain is fine and 
close, and the onion is solid and 
heavy. It is hardy and reliable, 
and well adapted for the early 
market. This onion will succeed 
almost anywhere, but is peculiar- 
ly fittedfor northern latitudes 
where the seasons are short and 
cool. Packet, 5 cts.; oz., 10 ets.; 
14 1b., 25 cts.; 1b.; 90 cts. 
MAULE’S LARGE RED WETHERSFIELD. MAULE’S pd 
This has been one of my leading specialties for 
more than twenty years. The engraving is RSF 
from a photograph. In color the skin is deep, G 
purplish red. The flesh is white, moderately Ay 
grained, and of good character. The flavor when ZZ 
cooked, is highly relishable. One of my patrons A Aw 
grew 66,905 pounds of Maule’s Large Red Wethers- Z AHA ; 
field onions on a single acre of ground, some years 
ago, in competition for a prize of $250. This is at 
the rate of 1,200 or 1,300 bushels per acre, the legal 
weight of a bushel of onions varying in different 
States from 50 to 57 pounds. Yields of 600 to 800 
, bushels of my Wethersfield per acre are not rare. 
> Onion seed value depends greatly upon the way 
the stock is selected and cared for, and the seed 
which I offer is of the earliest form, grown from 
hand sorted bulbs and sure to produce large onions. 
Specimens of Maule’s Large Red Wethersfield 
weighing one or even two pounds the first year 
from seed are not uncommon, and there is a note- 
worthy uniformity of size, scullions being un- 
; Known. This onion is a magnificent keeper, and | | t 
my customers speak of it every year in terms of \ t | HUH | 
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Yellow Globe 
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highest praise. Many strains of Red Wethersfield | i} i De hl 
are offered the American public, but my careful ' } Hi | SH Ha! 
comparative tests convince me that none are \\\ Wy PTH RAL, HH 
equal to the one here described. Itisinevery way \ i | 
a Peeece red onion for home and market purposes. 
Pkt., 5 cts.; 0z., 10 cts.; 14 1b., 25 ets.; 1b., 90 cts. 
Ten pounds of any of the five 
varieties listed on this page de- 
Py n livered free at your nearest 
post or express office for $7.50. 
