4 — Vegetable Seeds 



THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1909 



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At the request of hundreds of my friends, who 

 have written me that they thought it would be an 

 improvement in the Maule Seed Book if all the 

 different varieties of vegetables were together, and 

 not scattered through the specialties, as heretofore, 

 my customers this year will find descriptions and 

 illustrations of all the different cabbages, onions, 

 turnips, etc., arranged alphabetically, so far as 

 possible; commencing with artichokes below, and 



winding up with turnips on page 91. This, I think, 

 simplifies matters considerably, and while at first 

 I was in doubt about the advisability of putting all 

 my vegetable specialties with the ordinary varieties, 

 now that it is accomplished I am very well pleased 

 with the idea, and trust it will meet the approval of 

 my friends. If you like the scheme say so when 

 ordering, and I will be glad to list flower seeds next 

 year in a similar manner. 



ARTICHOKES. 



GREEN GLOBE.-A table vegetable of very high merit. A perennial. Use 

 flower buds just before full development. Start seed in border and'set plants 

 4x4 feet. Protect with winter mulch north of Delaware. Pkt„ 10c; oz., 30c. 



AAnjinSlAIIQ Culture. — 1 ounce of seed in drills will produce 400 plants. Soak the seed. 



«&s sKllUUu select strolls one-year j.lants for making a plantation. Set deeply in rows 5 feet 

 Wl MliM** WW! apart, 1% feet or more apart in row. This will require 6,000 plants per acre. 

 BARK'S PHILADELPHIA MAMMOTH.— It throws strong, well developed shoots the entire season. 

 a.nd always commands top notch prices in the discriminating Philadelphia market. At three years old 



Barr's Mammoth has yielded at the rate of S5U0 per acre. 

 Pkt,, 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.; % lb., 20 cts.; lb., 60 cts. Roots, 

 l-y «• in-old. 100 by mall, $1.00; 2-year-old, 100 by mall, 

 S3. 00, postpaid. By express or freight, not prepaid, 

 1-year-old, $4.00 per 1,000; 2-year-old, $6.00 per 1,000. 



COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH WHITE Has white shoots 



which stay white. Pitt., 5c; oz., 10c; l 4 lb., 20c; lb., 

 60c Roots, 1-year-old, 100 by mall, $1.00; 2-year- 

 old, 100 by mall, $2.00, postpaid. By ex., not prepaid, 

 1-year-old, $4.00 per 1,000; 2-year-old, $6 per 1.000. 



PALMETTO Earlier than Conover's. Of Southern ori- 

 gin, but suitable for North also. Large and productive. 

 Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.; ', lb., 20 cts.; lb., 60 cts. Roots, 

 1-year-old, 100 by mall, $1.00; 2-year-old, 100 by mall, 

 $2.00, postpaid. By express or freight, not prepaid, 

 1-year-old, $4.00 per 1,000; 2-year-old, $6.00 per 1,000. 

 GIANT ARGENTEUIL — The seed which I offer is a 

 selection from imported French Argenteuil stock. My 

 strain is an improvement upon the original. In the South 

 it is regarded as distinctly superior to Palmetto, and I 

 recommend it with great confidence to Northern growers. 

 One experienced grower says that Argenteuil is as much 

 larger than Palmetto as Palmetto is larger than Conover. 

 It has a place of its own in the New York and Boston 

 markets, and sells for SI. 00 to §2.00 more per dozen bunches 



than the best of old sorts. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 13 cts.; 1 : lb., 30 cts.; lb., $1.00. Roots, 1-year- 

 old, 100 by mail, $1.00; 2-year-old, 100 by mall, $2, postpaid. By express, not prepaid, 

 1-year-old, 75 cents per 100; $5.00 per 1,000. 2-year-old, $1.00 per 100; $6.00 per 1.000. 



BARR'S PHILADELPHIA MAMMOTH. 



GREEN POD. 



Culture. — Beans are rather tender, and 

 should not go into the open ground until 

 danger of frost is over. Of bush beans use 

 1 quart to 275 feet of drill; \}. 2 bushels to acre. Of pole beans use 1 quart to 200 hills; 10 to 16 quarts 

 per acre. Cover bush beans 2 inches; pole beans 1 inch. Sow bush beans in drills 2 to 4 feet 

 apart; pole beans in hills 4 feet each way. Good corn land is in condition for growing a crop 

 of beans. Limas delight in soil that is made very rich by liberal manuring. 



Burpee's Stringless Green Pod. 



The Stringless Green Pod is now one of the most popular bush 

 beans in America. In point of earliness it ranks among the first, in 

 luallty it is excelled by none, and in bearing ability it stands without 

 % rival. It is unquestionably the greatest green pod bean to date. 

 As to brittleness of pod, the point suggested by its name, its merit is so 

 high that its enthusiastic friends claim it is the only stringless bean. 

 Packet, 10 cts.: pint, 35 cts.: qnart, 45 cts., postpaid. By express 



The pods are round, fleshy and nearly straight; are borne In abund- 

 ance through a long season, beginning early. They are f>% to 6% inches 

 in length, light green in color, very tender, and of highest and best 

 flavor. They remain long in edible condition, and the plant or bush 

 bears continuously for weeks. This bean is unexcelled for home use, and 

 will be found very profitable for market. It has already taken great hold 

 with market gardeners, on account of its heavy cropping ability. The 

 testimony in regard to it is all in one direction and all highly flattering. 

 or freight, not prepaid, quart, 30 cts.; peck, 82.00; bushel, $7.00. 



