WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Vegetable Seeds — 57 



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THE ^ING l a ll RE ONIONS 



Yellow « E 



MAULE'S PRIZETAKER ONION. 



I have, personally, looked in various parts of Europe and America for an onion surpassing Prizetaker in beauty, 



productiveness and general merit, and believe there is nothing better in the whole world, unless it be 



the New Commercial. Prizetaker is unexcelled either for home use or as a money maker. 



Headquarters StOGk can be obtained only from Wm. Henry Maule. 



without stiffness of the neck. In market it never fails to 

 attract attention on account of its beauty, and is sure to bring 

 a far better price than any other onion/ It is even more at- 

 tractive in appearance than the large Spanish onions sold on 

 the city fruit stands — in fact, takes the place of that variety. 



My predictions made years ago, at the time of its introduc- 

 tion, that Prizetaker would supplant all others of its class, has 

 long since been verified. It has attracted more attention and 

 awakened wider and more cordial enthusiasm than any other 

 onion ever introduced to the American public. It has proven 

 itself a great acquisition to farmers and gardeners, and is 

 today admitted to be the largest, finest flavored and most 

 superior Yellow Globe Onion under cultivation. 



1 named and introduced this great onion in 1888, and ever 

 since have given it special prominence in every catalogue I 

 iaave issued. Today, twenty-one years after it was named by 

 me. it will be found prominently illustrated in almost every 

 catalogue. Some call it Smith's Prizetaker, Brawn's Prize- 

 iaker, and Robinson's Prizetaker; but no matter how many 

 seedsmen put their names in front of Prizetaker, there is only 

 one Prizetaker, and that is Maule's, named and introduced 

 by me, and for five years catalogued by myself exclusively. 



Prizetaker is by far the handsomest, most productive, most 

 popular aud best of all Yellow Globe Onions. ft is a bright, 

 dear straw color, and always grows to a uniform shape, which 

 is a perfect globe. Tt has a very small neck, and ripens up 



Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 25 cents; quarter 



White Welsh Onion* 



My old friend Mr. Greiner had this to say about 

 • his bunch onion: — "In the new bunch onion culture. 

 i. am figuring out the gross returns from one-sixth 

 acre to be fully $1,000, nine-tenths of it being clear 

 profit. Fig. 1 shows a bunch as given in the Cyclopedia 

 of American Horticulture. I find this onion hardy as 

 »n oak, and the suggestion of a bulb makes it suitable 

 »'or a bunch onion. A bunch, such as we made them 

 and found ready sale for them, is shown in Fig. 2. 

 rhe=e bunches were quite attractive and coming iu a 

 season when green stuff is scarce, extremely service- 

 able for the purposes of a bunch onion. We put about 

 en stalks to the bundle, or twice as many as found 

 in the average bunch in the market. We could 

 have disposed of a good many more than we had, 

 even in our local market, and Buffalo and the 



pound, 60 cents; pound, $2.25, postpaid. 



WHITE WELSH ONION. 



smaller cities nearby would gladly have taken large 

 quantities. Where the plants stood fairly thick 1b 

 the row (as thick as we should aim to have them v 

 and as we can get them by sowing 10 or 12 pounds of 

 seed to the acre, on rich ground) we made four 

 dozen bunches from 6 feet of row, the rows being 1-1 

 inches apart. When a spot of ground 14 inches 

 wide by 6 feet long brings one dollar, you can easily 

 figure out that the acre rate is fully 86,000, less than 

 one-tenth of which goes for labor in preparing 

 (cleaning and bunching) the product for market. 

 The expenses of growing the crop are comparative- 

 ly slight. I like to sow seed in spring or early 

 summer, not in the fall.'' Mr. Greiner reports grea : i 

 difficulty in securing good seed of the White Welsh 

 onion. He advised me of the matter and whilf In 

 Europe I managed to secure a supply, which I t;ikfe 

 pleasure in offering to my customers. 

 Pit., 10 cts.; ox., 85 cte.; % lb., 60 cts.j lb., $3.00, 



