24 THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1906 
MAULE’S GOLDEN SELF-BLANCHING CELERY. 
The Favorite Sort. Unquestionably the Most Popular and Profitable Celery im Cultivation. Every 
Year the Demand Continues to Increase, so that it Oftem Happems I am Sold Out Early in the Season. 
Golden Self-Blanching is the best and most popular celery in cultivation 
today, all things considered. It gives the largest return for the least 
labor. In quality it ranks with the highest. It is in equal favor with the 
amateur and the market gardener. It is of dwarf or half-dwarf habit, 
growing about 18 or 20 inches high, wonderfully stocky, very heavy, per- 
fectly solid, of delicious flavor and a good keeper. Added to these fine 
points is its great distinctive virtue of being almost literally self-blanching. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 30 cents; 14 pound, $1.00; pound. $3.00. 
XX Selected Strain 
s Golden ci dmeape| | Celery 
PSE OLOLy) GROWN BY Tee CEL UE OS 
Every practical gardener knows that Golden Self-Blanching celery 
varies considerably, if examined plant by plant along a row. The aver- 
age may be good, but some plants are better than others, while here and 
there a plant has reverted and gone back to the green type, from which 
Golden Self-Blanching started originally. Many a gardener has wished 
‘that every plant in the row might be equal to the best. Every year, for 
several years, I have received some seed from the original introducer of 
this variety in France, which has always excited favorable comment. It 
has always been disposed of at an extra price to a few special customers. 
I some time ago concluded it was hardly fair to keep this strain for a few 
people only, and haye consequently decided to offer it separately from 
my regular stock of Golden Self-Blanching, under the name XX Selected 
Strain. The attention of my customers is directed t6 the detailed descrip- 
tion of Golden Self-Blanching on this page, and it is not deemed neces-_ 
sary to repeat the description here, as the table quality and commercial 
merits of that famous labor saving variety are universally recognized. 
The point to be made emphatic is that I can offera more beautiful, 
more profitable and a really improved Golden Self-Blanching. Every 
celery grower should test it, at least in a small way, during 1906. Every 
desirable trait has been made better and every bad trait has been elimi- 
nated, and the Improved Golden Self-Blanching now offered to the public 
will be found in every way superior to the stock of Golden Self-Blanching’ 
generally offered, and it is well worth the difference in price. 
Packet. 10 cents; half ounce, 30 cemts; ounce, 50 cents; 
quarter pound, $1.50; pound, $5.00; 5 pounds, $20.00. 
GOLDEN SERS BLA YCHING CELERY. Oxx SELECTED STRAIN.) 
tra Cucumber. 
Market and Pickling. 
-Maute’s 
First for the Tab 
This widely popular cucumber is a cross between 
arly Russian and Green Prolific. It has becomea 
general favorite. It has the earliness of one parent 
and the high quality and remarkable prolificness of 
the other. It always grows uniformly, and is seldom 
too large for pickling. The vines are of extra yigor- 
ous growth, with leaves of a dark green color, and 
produce an abundance of fruits. 
Its extreme earliness is, however, its greatest 
recommendation, making it invaluable. On account 
of its earliness and its very high quality I list it 
among my choicest novelties. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 
14 pound, 40 cents; pound, $1.25. 
" MAULE’S EXTRA EARLY CUCUMBER. 
The New Extra Early 
Parisian Forcing Carrot. 
The Radish Carrot. 
This new carrot is of such quick growth that I think a good 
name for it is the Radish carrot, for it certainly matures as 
quickly as a radish. The root is formed much quicker than 
the well-known French Forcing carrot. The illustration 
herewith shows this wonderful carrot, actual size, about three 
weeks after sowing. It has a very fine neck and a rather 
hollow crown. Leaves are short and erect, and while small 
are quite sufficient for early bunching. It has been the first 
carrot on the Parisian market for a number of years, and I 
can highly recommend it to all my customers who desire a 
= = small, early, delicious carrot that will mature as soon as 
THE NEW EXTRA EARLY PARISIAN FORCING CARROT. many varieties of radishes. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 30 cents 
