



GOLDEN GIANT 










SIDE OATS. — Were 











ottered tor the first 


time in this country in 1889, and all reports 
so far received have been of a most favorable 
eharacter. Coming originally from one of 
the most celebrated French agriculturists, it 
has been demonstrated most conclusively 
that the New Giant Side Oats are as equally jt 
desirable for cultivation in this country as in Bg aS : 
France. They grow 4 to 5 feet tall, with stiff — Xe 



heads measuring 16 to 18 inches in length, and con- = 
taining 150 to 200 grains being of common occurrence. By 
actual count, 1642 grains have been produced from asingle grain, or in 
other words, a product of over 1600 fold. As indicated by the name, 
they are a Side Oats. Packet, 10 cents; pound, 30 cents; 3 pounds, 75 
cents. By express or freight, peck, 60 cts., bushel, $1.50; 10 bushels, $12.50. | 
WELCOME OATS.—No oats have ever been so extensively adver- | 
tised as Welcome, nor been distributed more extensively in all sec- 
tions of the country. Weighing as high as 56 Ibs. per level bushel, 
it surpasses all others, while it is also remarkably productive, over 10 
bushels having been grown in 1883 from 2 ozs. of seed. I offer 
direct headquarters’ stock. Pkt., 10 cts.; lb., 30 cts.; 3 lbs., 75 cts., 
postpaid; peck, 50 cts.; bushel, $1.25; 10 bushels, $10.00. 
HIGHLAND CHIEF BARLEY.—This is an entirely new and dis- 
tinct two-rowed variety of Barley. It is very robust, a vigorous grower, 
and the size of the grain when compared with any other is immense. 
Has strong, upright straw, yields from fifty to sixty bushels per acre, 
and usually weighs ever fifty pounds to the measured bushel. Pkt., 10 
cts.; lb., 35 ets.; 3 lbs., 90 cts., postpaid. Peck, 75 cents; bushel, $2.50. 
IMPROVED EVERGREEN BROOM CORN.—The best for gen- 
eral cultivation, and is more largely grown than any other variety; 
brush firm, of good length, and bright green color; never gets red, and 
brings the highest price. Pkt., 10 cts.; 1b., 30 cts.; 3 lbs., 75 cts., postpaid. 
Peck, $1.00; bushel, $2.50. 
SUGAR CANE—EARLY AMBER.—This is by far the best variety 
for sugar. The seed is valuable also as food for horses and cattle, and is 
greedily eaten by poultry, increasing the egg production. For ensilage 
or fodder, it possesses important advantages. Pkt, 10 cts.;1b., 30 cts.; 
3 lbs., 75 ets., postpaid. Peck, $1.00; bushel, of 56 lbs., $2.50. 
SUGAR CANE—EARLY ORANGE.—The favorite Southern _va- 
riety. Yields an abundance of syrup, does not grow quite as tall as Ear- | 
ly Amber, but is heavier. Packet, 10 cents; pound, 30 cents;3 pounds, 
75 cents, postpaid; peck, $1.00; bushel, 56 pounds, $3.00. 
Tc Two Best Sunflowers 
MAMMOTH RUSSIAN.—Sunflower seed is one of the best egg-producing 
foods known for poultry. keeping them in fine condition and jareelys increasing | 
the supply of eggs. Itcan be sown any time up to the middleof July. It 
should be grown by every poultry breeder who has the opportunity to raise only 
a few stalks even. Itmay beset in any soil where other fruits and vegeta- 
bles cannot be conveniently raised or anywhere where the soil is not 
ANAG easily cultivated. The 
NN flowers are double the 
size of the common va- 
riety, and as a bearer it 
far excels the latter. Pkt., 
10 cts.; pt., 25 cts.; qt., 40 
cts.; postpaid; by express, 
$1.00 per peck. 
BLACK GIANT.— 
This magnificent Sun- 
flower produces 
larger heads than the 
Mammoth Russian. 
Seeds are short, unusual- 
ly plump, and filled full 
of meat, while on account 
of the thinness of the 
shellit is at once more 
easily eaten by the fowls 
than other varieties. 
Another good quality is 
that the seeds are held 
very tightly in the flower, 
and are not as easily 
shelled or as readily eaten 

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There is nothing more 
healthy for poultry or 
that will so cheaply in- 
crease egg 
Packet, 15 cents; pint, 40 
eents; quart, 75 cents, 
postpaid. 
* TREE SEEDS x 
Apple, oz., 15 cts., Ib., 55 cts. White Birch, oz., 15c., tb., $1 35. 
Cherry Mazard, 02., 15c., lb., 45c. | Box Elder, 0z., 15 cts., Ib., $1.35. 
Peach, oz., 10 cts., Ib., 35 cts. Hardy Catalpa, oz., 15 cts., Ib., 
Pear, oz., 30 cts., Ib., $2.70. $1.15. 
Quince, 0oz., 30 cts., lb., $2.70. 
Arbor Vitz, American, oz., 40 
cts., lb., $3.60. 
Silver Fir, 02., 15 cts., lb., $1.35. 
Hemlock, oz., 50 cts., 1b., $4.50. 
Scotch Pine, 0z., 20 cts., lb., $1.80. 
White Pine, 02., 30cts., lb., $2.70. 
Norway Spruce, 0z., 15 cts., lb., $2.00. 
$1.35. Russian Mulberry, 0z., 60 cts., 
White Ash, oz., 15 cts., Ib., $1.35. Ib., $5.40. 
OSAGE ORANGE.—This will produce, with proper cultivation, a good 
hedge in from 3 to 4 years, from the seed, that will turn all kinds of stock. Oz., 

$1.35. 
European Linden, oz., 15 cts., 
Ib., $1.35. 
Honey Locust, oz., 10c., lb., 55c. 
Yellow Locust, o2., 10c., Ib., 55c. 
White Mulberry, 0z., 25 cts., lb., 


even | 
by birds as other sorts. |& 
production. | 
European Larch, oz., 15 cts., Ib., | 




JAPANESE BUCK WHEAT.—The best, most productive and profit- 
able variety in cultivation. From ¥% bushel of seed sown, 40 bushels of good 
seed have been harvested. In color the kernel isa rich dark brown. Strawis 
heavier, and branches more than the Silver Hull, while it need not be sown as 
thickly as other varieties. Flour made from the Japanese is fully equal if not 
superior to any other sort. 
two to three times as much. 
It is also an excellent variety for bees. Pkt., 10 cts.; lb., 30 
by mail, postpaid. By express or freight, pk., 50 cts.; bus., $ 
SILVER HULL BUCK WHEAT.—PEt., 10cts; lb., 
by mail, postpaid. By express or freight, pk.,50cts. 
THE NEW COOK COTTON.—I wish to ca 
Southern customers to this new variety of Cotton. Wherever grown the last 
few years it has proved of inestimable yalue, and if generally cultivated will 
be worth millions to the Southern States. I have cause to believe it is the 
very longest staple in existence. The Cook Cotton is not a Sea Island 
Cotton, but belongs to the same class as is grown all over the South, and can 
be ginned on any ordinary gin. A well known Cotton planter, after testin 
most of the new varieties, paid as high as $5.00 a bushel for Cook Cotton see 
last spring, and he was so well pleased with his investment that he will plant 
his whole plantation in this variety next year. Even at this high price he 
found that the seed paid for itself many times over. The illustration is taken 
from a lock picked atrandom. The Cook Cotton in the last three years has 
always brought the highest prices, selling in Vicksburg, in the fall of 1591, at 
15 cents a pound, when it was difficult to sell ordinary Cotton at 8 cents a 
pound. On October 14th, 1892, a sample picked at random in the field, with 
no special selection and ginned on an ordinary gin, was sent to Chaffee, Powell 
& West, one of the largest and most reliable Cotton houses in New Orleans, 
with the request that they would give their opinion of it. After examining 
it, they wrote :—‘‘The character of the staple is of a superior quality, being 
strong and silky. This is by far the best staple we have received this season.” 
A sample was sent at the same time to Richardson & May, the largest Cotton 
house in America, who called it ‘‘a superior staple Cotton.’”’ In January, 1890, 
a sample of the Cook Cotton was sent to Liverpool and submitted to Lewis 
Lloyd & Company for their opinion. They said: ‘‘ We have examined the small 
sample of extra staple Cotton sent by Mr. Cook, and consider it the very best 
of its kind as regards length of staple that we have seen in an experience 
extending over forty years in the fine staple trade. The Cotton would fetch 1144 
pence (23 cents) a pound here at present.” 
Surely no Cotton could receive higher indorsements than the above. I 
would caution all, however, not to plant this Cotton on poor land, for, like all 
long staples, it requires rich soil. The friend who brought this Cotton to my 
notice raised fully one bale to the acre on his rich land in 1892, and this was 
the worst year for Cotton known in many years. Some persons object, very 
justly, to paying heavy freight and express charges. On this account I have 
made arrangements to have the Cook Cotton shipped, at the prices mentioned 
below, in lots of one bushel or over, either from Philadelphia or from a point 
a few miles from Vicksburg, Miss. It can be shipped from the latter place 
either by ordinary freight, United States Express, or by steamboat on the 
Mississippi river. It is a new departure for me to offer Cotton seed in m 
catalogue, but in view of the fact that I now have over 50,000 customers sout 
of the Mason & Dixon line, who consider Maule’s Seeds the best of all, I do 
not think I have made a mistake in giving them a chance to secure seed 
of the finest variety of Cotton I know of at the following reasonable prices. 
Lb., 50 cents; 3 lbs., $1.00—by mail, postpaid. By express or freight, pk., $1.00; 
bus., $2.50; 10 bus., $20.00. 
It ripens a week earlier than Silver Hull, and yields 
Can be planted as far north as New Hamps 
3 lbs., 
pshire, 
ja cts.— 



10 cts.; lb., 40 cts. Bushel, by express or freight, purchaser paying charges, $7.50, 
PEACH PITS. Natural.—By express or freight, $1.00 per bushel. 
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