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3EFJT STREET 



1934 and 193o JONES STREET. 



L.BERT ST. 



j(T C Cash -with order, or satisfactory Philadelphia or New 



' York references. Monty can be sent by post-office order, | 

 If you don't remit in any of these ways, register the 

 can do this at any post-office in America. Fur expense of' 

 noney, I will send seed as an equivalent. I will send <J. O. D. by 

 piers exceeding S10, if 25 per cent, of the money is remitted with 

 cannot ship C O. D. by freight. I receive postage-stamps as cash. J 



$3500 



IN CASH PRIZES 

 :• FOR 1559. * 



Fur years the cash premiums 

 Maule's Seeds have been a iiiiiiiue ami distinctive feature <>l mj Iiii-i. 

 ness. I am determined 1880 shall be no exception to ' 

 pre in in in* to the amount of S3500 in caah « 



various parts of this catalogue. The following axe the terms ol rompetitioi 

 for prize vegetables: 



For all vegetables not required to be sent me, charges prepaid, a report, signed 

 by two thoroughly reliable and well-known wltnes sworn to before a 



Justice of the Peace, i» necessary. By well-known witnesses I 



country storekeepers in g 1 standing in the community, i en to all 



excepting those to whom l have paid $100 or more in prizes within I 



years. I think that any one who has 



(100 should be satisfied to withdraw for a tune from the coi 



nn^on^ Sm^wnllp^inTrnSSn'S S^Str^ I SffiZ&X* r^^X'uSirPmvorahil si'ln'or' 

 and Jones St. stores, while illustration opposite * is ji good interior i,,,,!,,,,,, ,,, raii ; e n remium vegetables than . 



premiums. I really offered £2325. oftbl* 



last October. On page 17 I make the stateineni iltui I 



ininm that I have not paid. This pagi went to press 



the only report sent me on Montreal Melon was a nraui 



n, i- Page :. and also READ NOTE AT HOTTOil <»l I'ti.l ii. 



|equently accused by my competitors of blowing my own horn too 



and countless efforts are being constantly made" to belittle the 



| business annually done in Maule's Seeds. I think the trouble 



l tile fact that some of mr competitors have found out 



re ha vim; hard work to hold their own against seeds 



It hlsrh quality- as are sent out from my- establishment. 



. the illustrations of my warehouses, on this and opposite page, 



question that I have good reasons to be proud of a business 



to conduct it ? 



St. stores, while 



I Filbert St. property. These are not fancy "pictures, but represent 



st as they- are. It is needless to say that I am very proud of my 



for filling the orders my friends are so good as to send me, and it 



|source of satisfaction to show any one of my customers through my 



Frequently customers from a "distance happen to be stopping in 



,and while here, come to seethe place from which they obtain their 



l always glad to see them, and after show ing them through my stores. 



i the same opinion that the half had not been told, and that 



|o idea there was such a place in the country. As it is Impossible for 



nmers to go through my establishment in person, I will explain the 



lustration. Beginning at the bottom 



3ASEMENT. — This is entirely devoted to storing seed potatoes. 



FLOOR.— To the right, wilffirst be seen office No'. 1. This is 



btirelv to booking orders. For this purpose I require 37 enormous 



pch if laid one oh top of the other, make a pile almost 8 feel high. 



Stain .55,157 separate accounts, or one for every Post office in 



Now suppose an order comes from John Smith, Redw 1 < ily, < 'til. 



frnia Ledger is taken by the clerk, who turns to Redwood City, and 

 Pname John Smith with amount and number of his order; a slip is then 

 ^ if the order goes by mail, or a tag if it goes by express i * freight, and 

 Its sent to the department to which it belongs, for filling. Soil will l>o 

 J if I have the customers' po-t-ollice address, I can Mud his order in a 

 Ids. Back of this office, is the out-going mail loom : here almost all day 

 ■ a dozen clerks are busy placing the stamps on packages that go b\ 

 {packing them in I'ncle Sams' mail sacks, which the post office author- 

 jBhmeforthat pur]H>so. Back of this is the shipping room. Here 1 have 

 Jay right into the store into which wagon- are hacked, so that all my 

 Igand loading in the Filbert St. warehouse is done under covi 

 \0ND FLOOR.— Tn tin- right will he seen office of m\ managi i a man 

 1 been with me almost from the very commencement ol m\ career, and 

 toOre cnarge of mv business when I am away at any time. I 

 ■my private office" illustration of which is given on lii 

 pf this floor is tine,', ur i<-> (ill the large ■ 



SD FLO OR. —To the right will be -ecu office number i, here sroung 

 fcekept busv addressing catalogue wrappers and liltn : onl 

 lumber, in books of 500 orders each, after they have be Back 



knd right over mv private office, is the office for opening the mail, iUus 

 .page 30. In the busv season my entire time fro 11 P. v >. 



,• four or five trust v clerks, is taken up opening the thou utters 



line bv everv mai'l and in dictating n> a stenographs such I tl 



ring, in the middle of this floor will be s 

 I in packets ; here I have stored away millions ol papei 



i as new seeds come to hand in the fi packed her, ii 



-li of business. Hack of this room i- the mail ordei department, 

 -. here all mail-orders amounting to less than - ed and this 



Jso used in December and January tor mailing lm 

 9URTH FLOOR— Is devoted to storage purposes. 



TB FLOOR.-Forward part is devoted to storing onion aetS and 

 Igseeds. The rear contains Mail-Order Department number 3; in this 

 nent all orders amounting to more than 82.00 and less than 84.00a 

 (th such facilities, is it not remarkable that owing to an enon 

 — last season, and the large trade 1 ex pe 



MY FOUR-LEAF CLOVER GUARANTEE. * 



A 1 i. SAFE ARRIVAL.. I guarantee that 



reach my customers in go,«i order. 

 DC. MONEY INSURED. I guarantee to hold niyself res] 

 arrival of all remittance P O order, draft, check, 



III. FREE III MA III. I guarantei to deliver all gardi 

 (except at prices given on page 16 free of all ch u 



IV. AS REPRESENTED. I guat 



If they prove otherwise, I will retill the order free ■ 



understood that I do not guarantee the crop anv furthei 

 WHAT IIORE (OUI.I) III: ISKEDi i 

 crop. Protected from loss h\ tins most liberal of .ill 

 rest assured of the most entire satlst 



PECIAb DISCOUNT 



ON SEEDS 

 IN PKTS. 



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