The peer of every known variety, early or late, embracing in itself 

 earliness, form, solidity and every desirable quality that go to 

 make a perfect Tomato. As early as Maule's Earliest. As large 



• and smooth as Ignotum or Matchless. As solid as Turner Hybrid. 



SO many good qualities never before embraced in a single variety. 

 The best tomato for the South, the best for the North, none better 

 for the East or West, Every market or private gardener will make a 

 tremendous mistake if they do not include a packet of Maule's New 

 Imperial Tomato in their order this season. Now offered to the Amer- [ 

 ican public for the first time. My attention was called to this variety 

 sometime ago, samples having been sent out to seedsmen around the 

 country generally for trial on the various trial grounds. From the very 

 first it was recognized as a great improvement, and admitted by many 

 to be decidedly the best early they had ever seen. Not only myself, but 

 every one who tried it was especially impressed with the superior merits 

 of the New Imperial, so much that'l finally made arrangements at a 

 tremendous price for the purchase of every seed in Mr. Halladay's pos- 

 session. In describing it I cannot do better than quote from a letter re- 

 ceived from Mr. A. A. Halladay, Bellows Falls, Vt., dated Oct. 1st, 1894: 

 In the season of 1889 I found among my Dwarf Champion Tomato plants (The 

 I seed for which I saved myself) one plant that was entirely distinct from that va- 

 riety. I kept it separate from the others, and was surprised to tind perfectly ripe 

 fruit on this plant several davs before the ripe specimens appeared on the Cham- 

 pions or Early Ruby plants that were planted on the same day. The fruit on this 

 new plant seemed entirely different and far superior to any I had previously seen. 

 It being perfectly smooth, ripened evenly to stem, and in color between the Cham- 

 pion and Beauty. It was also the most productive Tomato I had ever seen. Many- 

 others S..W it that season and all pronounced it the handsomest tomato they had 

 ever set-n. I saved the seed from one tomato only that season, and have since by 

 careful selections of the stock seed improved it each season, until to-day I claim the t 

 New Imperial Tomato is the earliest, handsomest, smoothest, most solid and most I 

 productive tomato in the world. In my trials of all the leading varieties so called j 

 best and earliest, this new tomato has always come out ahead from 10 to 22 days in 

 ripening. (This season in a test with 40 other varieties, including every variety 

 claimed to be extra earlv, under exactly the same conditions, the New Imperial 

 was giving us perfectly ripe fruit by the bushel 22 days before one specimen was ripe 

 on anv of the 4B other kinds). I do not claim that it will alw ays do this, in fact I do 

 not believe it will: but I do claim and believe that this is the earliest perfectly 



I also wish to supplement this letter of Mr. Halladay's with the fol- 

 lowing from Messrs. Jas. J. H Gregory & Sons, Marblehead, Mass. : 



" I was at Mr. Halladay's, Bellows Falls, Vt, and examined his crop of toma- 

 toes, and can say that I neVer saw a handsomer crop. They were uniform in , size, 

 ripened well around the stem, thick meated, and resembled the Dwait Champion 

 in color. As for earliness I cannot tell, only what Mr. Halladay claims lor them. 

 At the time he said they were 14 davs earlier than any other, he having tried them 

 for five years with all the earliest varieties known. I measured several of the 

 tomatoes ; the result was 3? 4 inches by 2% inches. From w hat I saw ot it, 1 think; 

 it would make an excellent shipping tomato, it being very firm and solid. 



Now I conscie ntiouslv believe that in introducing the New Imperial 

 to the American public I am giving them the opportunity of securing 

 seed of the most perfect tomato known to-day, embracing more good 

 qualities than any other sort, and in size, shape and handsome appear- 

 ance surpassing anvthing heretofore put on the market. I have an tne 

 seed there is for sale, which I take pleasure in offering as follows : 

 Packet, 20 cents; 3 packets, 50 cents; 7 packets, $1.00. 



$ 



w^,^ Arf ip ' A r For the best half- 

 IOO==UCl. I5, 95 dozen NEW IMPE- 



RIAL TOMATOES sent me, charges prepaid, on 

 or before that date, raised by my customers. 



Let all enter this competition with a will, and next fall I am sure my 

 friends will be able to send me the finest specimens of this vegetable 

 ever grown in the United States. ^ 



It gives me pleasure to inform my friends that the 8750 

 in cash prizes offered last year was awarded as follows : 



ON IRISH DAISY POTATOES. 



First Prize. $100, Davis Foster, Olio, W5 0, 



Second Prize, $7.3, Mrs. Sylvania King, Marengo, » ash. 



Third Prize, $50, J. S. Lovell. Council Bluffs, Iowa. 



Fourth Prize, $-25, A. H. Dean, Lawrmctv llle, X. ^ . 

 OX I. UPTON CABBAGE. 



First Prize, S100. A. Phillips, Arroyo Grande, Cal. 



Second Prize. $73, .I0I111 Fraser, New Bridge. Oregon. 



Third Prize, $50, Abel Steele. Ferguson. Ontario, Can. 



Fourth Prize, $'i5, Win. K. Newkirk. Folsom, X. Mexico. 

 $100 oil Wonderful Sugar Melon, Sanil. Guymon, Harris. Mo. 

 8100 on 100 Weight Pumpkin, W. T. Kephart, Bainbridg< . Mo. 

 $50 on Burpee's Bnsh Lima, B. W. Warrington. Mickleton. X. J. 



