my last year's Introduction, I made the statement that I proposed to go in- 

 to the season's trade with Coat Off and Sleeves Rolled Up. In the first place 

 I gave my customers a hard times Catalogue, reduced prices wherever possible 

 to the lowest notch, and in every way gave them a catalogue up to the times. 

 The result was that, in addition* to my old friends who stick to me year after 

 year, Maude's Seeds were supplied last season to 45,718 people who had 

 never sown them before, a record that was certainly phenomenal these hard 

 times, and has never been equaled in the seed trade, even in 

 years of general prosperity. Is it to be wondered at, then, that i con- 

 sider it my first duty to thank my old friends who induced so many of their 

 neighbors to joiu them in sending me such a liberal share of their patronage 

 in seasons like the past. Fully appreciating what they have done for me, I have started out this 

 vear with the idea of giving them a strictly 



UP=TO=DATE CATALOGUED 



Notwithstanding the severe drought of the past summer which has injured many seed crops most disastrously, I 

 have advanced prices in but very few cases, and only then where it was absolutely necessary; but on the other hand, 

 wherever possible, I have reduced my prices so as to offset any advance I have had to make. Last fall there was con- 

 siderable excitement in the trade about Onion Seed, and sales of Red Wethersfield and Yellow Danvers were made in 

 large lots at 81.50 per lb. and over. 1 consider this value was largely fictitious. I think the seed worth more money 

 than it was last year, but in accordance with the policy I have adopted in this business since its foundation, I propose 

 to look after my customers' interests, and as long as my supply holds out, I have determined to hold the fort at 

 last year s prices, selling 10 pounds of many leading varieties for SIO. I want to emphasize the fact, however, that 

 prices quoted on Onion Seed in this Catalogue are strictly for the benefit of my regular customers, and I reserve the 

 right at any and all times to decline orders for Onion Seed exclusively. There is another point I wish to call to 

 the especial attention of every reader of this book. Maule's Seeds manv times the past year have been well named 



• • e • DROUGHT=RESISTING SEEDS. • • • • 



In some of the worst sections of Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa, Maule's Early Mastodon Corn was the only corn 

 maturing a crop for miles around, and without rain for months matured a crop of 40 to 50 bushels to the acre. In 

 many parts of the West, the Irish Daisy Potato has yielded the past season 300 and 400 bushels per acre, where other 

 varieties have hardly returned the seed planted, in many towns where it has been impossible to irrigate, gar- 

 dens sown with Maule's Seeds have been the only ones to amount to anything. So it has been from one 

 end of the drought-stricken district to the other. 

 Now for the reason : I have for years been fur- 

 nishing my customers with seeds of such strong 

 vitality and quick germinating quality, that when 

 properly sown they grow so quickly as to distance 

 in many cases even a severe drought like the one 

 of last Summer. In the meantime the low-vitality 

 seeds offered by many of my competitors have 

 started such a feeble growth that a week or two of 

 drought is all that is needed to make the garden a 

 failure. Now do not misunderstand what I say 

 above. I do not profess to sell seeds that will grow l 

 without water ; but I do make the claim that 

 seeds of stronger vitality and quicker grow- 

 ing qualities than the seeds I have been of- 

 fering my customers for years, are not sold 

 In America; and such thoroughbred seeds are 

 better able to stand seasons like the last and resist 

 the drought than seeds of poor vitality. 



Another New Warehouse. 



I have long prided myself on my exceptional 

 facilities for filling promptly and in good shape I 

 all the orders with which my friends favored me. 

 I herewith present an illustration of my new 

 store, erected especially for me in connection with 

 the Farmer Co., publishers of The Practical Farm- 

 er, and situated at the S. E. Cor. Market & 18th 

 Sts., one of the most prominent corners in Phila. 



In the upper right hand corner, I give an illus- 

 tration of my Filbert St. store, which I have occu- 

 pied for a number of years; the next illustration 

 is my Jones St. warehouse, which I have occu- 

 pied for the last six years; and the illustration in 

 the left hand corner represents the new seven- 

 story building. It is fitted up with passenger and 

 freight elevators, electric lights, steam heat, etc., 

 and is considered by Philadelphians one of the 

 handsomest new buildings of the year. 



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Now a word in regard to Novelties. 



The great claims made for the Irish Daisy Potato, 'Wonderful Sugar !.>» and Lap- 

 ton Cabbage last season have been fully sustained. These three sterling novelties came 

 through the severe ordeal the past summer with flying colors. The Irish Daisy was excep- 

 tional, it outyielded every other known variety of potatoes. Wonderful Sugar Melon was 

 pronounced by all the best and most delicious variety ; while the Lnpton Cabbage made a 

 friend of every cabbage grower who planted it. 



For 1895 I have to offer my friends the three novelties of the year, the privilege of introduc- 

 ing, each one of which has been eagerly sought after by dozens of well-known seedsmen. I 

 have paid a larger sum of money for the New Davis Kidney Wax Bean, New Imperial Tomato, 

 and Extra Early Grand Rapids Muskmelon, than was ever paid for three novelties in the history 

 of the seed trade, knowing the best was none too good for my customers. Every one of 

 these six varieties should be included in every order sent me this season. 



No one knows better than myself what these hard times, supplemented by such a drought 

 as we had last season, mean to thousands of my customers. 



Maule's are not cheapseeds in the sense that they are the lowest priced in the market; but 

 you cannot in seasons like the present afford to take any risk, and there is no question thai 

 I. '» Seeds, no matter what the price, as compared with those offered by my com- 

 petitors, will be the cheapest In the end If you wish to harvest successful crops next 

 season. My old friends who stick by me year after year, and there are tens of thousands of 

 them, know' full well they cannot afford to change, and such will be the verdict of all new 

 customers, after they have had one year's experience with Maule's Seeds. Thanking ail my 

 old friends for their generous treatment the past season, and trusting that the financial and 

 agricultural depression that has been clouding the country's prosperity for the last few years 

 may soon disappear, and once again we shall all realize good prices for what we have to sell, 

 I remain, YOURS TO COMMAND, 



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