MAULE’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1904 

The Four Great New Vegetables for 1904. 
I am very proud of the colored plate opposite. 
The illustrations are really so good they ought © | 
No one can help but acknowledge that such tomatoes, # 
these four vegetables as near to life as possible. 
to sell the seed without description. 
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The artist has certainly painted each one of 
cucumbers, peppers and lima beans are certainly worth the raising. One packet of each one of = 
these four varieties will be mailed on receipt of 35 cents. 
This is So phenomenally low for such? 
grand vegetables that | expect thousands of my customers to avail themselves of this opportunity. » 
New Magniticent Tomato. 
225,000 Sample Packets Distributed Last Year 
Among my Customers for Trial, Without a Name. 
Never before has any vegetable been tried so thoroughly in 
all sections of the country as Magnificent tomato was last 
season. In different soils, and various climatic conditions 
(although last year was a poor one in many sections of the 
country for the tomato crop) it came out with flying colors. 
The name itself, suggested by eleven customers, expresses in 
one word how good it really is, and it certainly well deserves 
the name Magnificent. In describing it I cannot do better 
than quote from a report sent me by Mr. A. F. Boyd, Lime- 
stone, Pa., who secured the $50.00 prize for the best deserip- 
tion. Mr. Boyd writes as follows: ‘It is different from all 
other tomatoes in almost every particular. First—The plants 
root well from the very beginning of their growth. Second— 
As the result of this strong growth of root, there is a large 
and vigorous growth of stock to support the weight of the 
fruit. Third—Asa result of this strong and vigorous growth 
of stock, the spreading branches produce a great abundance 
of fruit from each plant, giving larger crops than other toma- 
toes of equal acreage. Fourth—The fruit is large, solid and 
smooth, easily prepared for market on account of its perfec- 
tion. Rub each tomato with a dry cloth, and your basket 
will challenge any gardener for size, smoothness, richness of 
color and general perfection. Fifth—The plant is hardy, can 
be set out early and not be injured by the cold if protected 
from frost. Sixth—The fruit ripens early, and the later- fruit 
on the vines is just as large and perfect as the early. After 
two heavy frosts (the vines lightly covered with straw) we 
are selling as fine tomatoes as I have ever seen, the people 
glad to get them at one dollar per bushel. If you want an 
abundant crop of large, solid, smooth, rich colored, meaty 
tomatoes, and tomatoes that will be large and good as long as 
the vines can be protected from frosts, send for Magnificent.” 
The $100 prize offered for the most appropriate name, was 
divided among the following eleven customers, each one of 
whom suggested the name ‘‘Magnificent:’? Mary EH. Leck- 
lider, Greenville, O., Mrs. Geo. E. Scott, Mt. Pleasant, O., 
Mrs. 8. L. Liffler, Sigel, [1]., W. H. Smith, Newark, W. Va., 
Mrs. C. P. Gibson, Girard, Ill., C. G. Whitney, Thomaston, 
Me., Geo. R. Proctor, Peoria, Ill., B. H. S. Eseott, Colpoy’s 
Bay, Wiarton, Ont., Can., W. L. Rowell, Ayer’s Flat, Quebec, 
Can., F. G. Duffin, Hoopeston, Ill., G. G. Hertzog, Califor- 
nia, Pa. The $50.00 prize for the best photograph was 
awarded to John Echternach, Sterling, Ill. While the $50.00 
pre for the best three specimens was awarded to Gordon 
Smix, gardener for Mr. Joseph F. Sinnott, Rosemont, Pa. 
Sending Magnificent out for advance trial was, I think, 
one of the best advertisements Maule’s Seeds has ever had. 
Thousands upon thousands of people seeing this tomato 
growing in the garden of their neighbors were struck by its 
remarkable beauty, making the remark they must surely 
have some of this seed next year, so it is not surprising that 
I expect an enormous demand for Magnificent ; and while I 
have quite a lot of seed on hand, would suggest that anyone 
wanting as much as an ounce or half ounce let me have their 
order as early in the season as possible. I shall have plenty 
of packets, however, to supply my trade all through the sea- 
son. Packet, 15 cents; } ounce, 50 cents; ounce, 75 cents. 
New Neapolitan Pepper. 
Without Exception the Earliest of all Peppers 
by a Week to Ten Days. 
A Money Maker from the Word Go. 
Tf I had not purchased my Panmure Seed Farms this pep- 
per would still be unknown. The first year I located in New 
Jersey my supeérintendent’s attention was attracted to the 
fact that a few Italian gardeners were sending peppers by 
the carload to New York, Boston, Philadelphia and even Chi- 
cago, one to three weeks earlier than any other pepper could 
be shipped. Sucha striking example of earliness naturally 

attracted his attention, and on investig tion, he found that sd 
for years a small settlement of Italians situated a few miles 2 
from my farm had been shipping these peppers to market * 
and realizing thousands of dollars profit from their sales. 4 
With considerable difficulty I secured a small quantity of 3 
the seed at an extravagant price. This was planted at Pan- & 
mure with our trials of other peppers, and Neapolitan proved 
itself to b2 two weeks earlier than any other pepper we a 
planted. This was sufficient recommendation for any vege- # 
table, but when in addition to this fact, we had good size and 
mild, piquant flavor, I decided we had secured a treasure and 
a money maker. Plants are of strong growth, very stocky 
and peppers are borne erect, averaging the size of the illus- 
tration opposite. Flesh is very thick and fruit is of a beauti- 
ful red color, tops being capped with white, which turns a 
brilliant red as shown in illustration. Now if my customers 
want a fine pepper from one to three weeks ahead of their 
neighbor’s, they must plant Neapolitan. Supply of seed is 
very limited, and I can offer it by the packet only. Packet, 
15 cents; 2 packets, 25 cents. 
New Shamrock Cucumber. 
Always Green When Other Varieties Turn White, 
Yellow and all Colors of the Rainbow. 
The new pepper comes to me from New Jersey ; this new 
cucumber comes to me from Michigan, right in the midst of 
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the pine woods, where the originator has been growing it for 0 | 
years. There are many varieties of White Spine cucumber ” 
for which this characteristic of being always green has been 
claimed ; but, as a rule, they have all been found wanting. 
The originator of Shamrock has this to say: ‘I was in the 
pickle business for 14 years, and grew my own seed for six 
years. The stock seed that produced this new cucumber was: 
Jersey pickle, and was grown by the side of Osage melons. 
In the production of my stock seed the next summer I grew 6 
two acres, growing some for another pickle company. In % 
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this two acres of seed, I found three cucumbers that were § | 
green while the rest were yellow. I cut these three cucum- ® 
bers and found them dead ripe. I saved the seed and planted & 
it the next year by itself, growing some for pickling, and 
found it O. K. I found that a few turned partly yellow when 3 
ripe; these I discarded and planted the seed again from the * 
green cucumber with a perfect result. The cucumber is dark — 
green, good shape, about like Jersey pickle, turns light green J 
when dead ripe. It isa good table cucumber and is the best 3 
for all market gardeners, as it keeps always green. I am ¥ 
willing to stand by every claim, and if there is another such § 
cucumber I do not know of it.”” It is needless to say that = | 
Shamrock, if it does as well the country over as it has done s 
in Michigan, where it originated, and on my trial grounds, & 
will be the coming cucumber, and I am proud to be able to 2 
offer a cucumber this year that will make a name for itself ° 
wherever cucumbers are grown. Pkt., 15 cts.; 2 pkts., 26 cts. 
Panmure Extra Early Lima Bean. 
Not Entirely New, as I First Offered it in 1903. 
We have a pepper from New Jersey, a cucumber from 4 
Michigan, and now we have this new lima bean from Califor- # 
nia, which State has, of recent years, become known as the # 
greatest lima bean district in the world. It represents the & 
careful selection for many years of one of the best growers of , 
lima beans I know of. By selecting the earliest pods year 
after year, he has secured a bean that is positively two weeks 
earlier than any other pole lima on the market. Beans are 
as large as the ordinary large lima, pods containing five and 
six beans. It comes in bearing early in July and bears right = 
up to frost. It is so good that I have decided to put the s 
name of my New Jersey trial grounds to it. At Panmure in , 
1902 we had about 3800 poles, last year we had several thou- s 
sand tested alongside of thirty other varieties, and it proved ~ 
one to two weeks earlier than the earliest of them. regret = 
to say my supply is still so limited that I can offer it by the ¥ 
packet only. Packet, 15 cents; 2 packets, 25 cents. > 
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