NEW CORY SWEET CORN. 



There is no question but that the Cory is the earliest of all sweet 

 i orns by from 5 to 10 days. Originated by Mr. Cory, of Rhode Island, 

 1 e lias been able to supply for many years the first sweet corn to the 

 • ividenee. Newport, and Fall River Markets. It is not only much ear- 

 r than the Marblehead. but produces much liner, larger, and sweeter 

 ■8 than this well known extra early. It is very dwarf in growth, pro- 

 'jcins almost invariably two ears to the stalk. Ears have been fit 

 jkr boiling Si days after planting. Two crops can readily be grown on the 

 / »me ground in'a single season. A large grower of vegetables near Xew- 

 /ort. R. L, from about 6 acres, marketed July 7,7000 dozen ears at 35 cents, 

 L.nd bv Jalv ltjth, 15.000 dozen ears at 30 cts., while Marblehead, not ready 

 fintil 7 or 8 days later, brought only 20 cts. a dozen. Demand was so 

 Jreat last season as to soon exhaust my supply, and every customer so far 

 Meard from pronounced their Cory Corn purchase one of the most 

 profitable they ever made. Anticipating a very large demand the 

 f •oming season, I have grown a big crop; but to be on the safe side, would 

 /advise earlv orders. If you have never planted the Cory, you do not 

 'want to miss (loins; so' in 1887. Pkt., 15 cts.: pint. 33 cts.; quart, 55 cts. 



MAULE'S IMPROVED DUTCH RUNNER. 



I thought well of Improved Dutch Runner last year, but had no idea 

 it would surpass my own high expectations ; but it did. For an early 

 shelled bean it has had no equal, while the green pods picked while 

 voung have been praised by all as cnap shorts. This new bean is with- 

 out a doubt FAR THE MOST PRODUCTIVE POLE BEAN EN 

 CULTIVATION. The illustration on opposite page gives but a faint 

 idea of the immense yield. I have never seen anything that could begin 

 to equal them, and all planting Dutch Runner this season, I am sure will 

 agree with me. They are also wonderfully early; in fact, among the 

 very earliest pole beans crown. Pods are very large and handBome, 

 almost equal to the Large Lima. In flavor they are wonderfully supe- 

 rior, and cooked green in summer. I guarantee you will find them 

 ahead of any succotash you ever made. They continue in bearing 

 from July right up to frost, and in winter or summer used as shelled 

 beans, I think they equal the finest Lima. Remember, in all the quali- 

 ties that go to make a good pole bean, Maule's Dutch Runners LEAD 

 ALL. It is unquestionably the earliest and most productive of all pole 

 beans. Do not forget to include it in j our order, i'kt.. 20 c; pint, 75 c. 



1877-1887 



AM DETERMINED TO PUSH MAULE'S SEEDS FOR THE COMING 

 SEASON OF 18S7 FROM THE WORD GO. My first efforts have been made 

 in giving mv friends this catalogue, which, enlarged and improved over every pre- 

 vious issue," has, I flatter myself, moke Originality and Common Sense 



COMBINED IN IT TO THE ' SQUARE INCH, THAN MANY OTHERS YOU Will 

 RECEIVE THIS WINTER WILL HAVE TO THE PAGE. 



Only ten years, but in that ten years these 

 United States have made greater strides to- 

 wards permanent prosperity than in any other ten years in the history oi this great 

 country. To me personally, these ten vears have been a period of hard but suc- 

 cessful work, and when I look back and see what has been accomplished in the 

 way of making Maule's Seeds well and widely-known, I cannot help but congratu- 

 late myself and, ABOVE ALL, THANK MY MANY THOUSAND FRIENDS FOR THEIR 

 KIND EFFORTS IN MY BEHALF. Ten years ago Maule's Seeds were unknown. 

 To-day there is hardly a county in the United States where they are not considered 

 the best of all. Ten years ago hard work to get rid of 10,000 catalogues 

 in an entire season, while from December loth, 1886, to February 15th, 1887, 1 ex- 

 pect to send through Uncle Sam's mail bags 300,000 copies of this catalogue 

 of maule's seeds. Ten years ago 100 orders a week was not considered bad, 

 j4 .-^v BUfcra-^ "i ^ 'falBfeg '-'^VT"^- while la<t sea>. >n over 1100* orders havk been received in a single day. 



9 ' — X^—^V^^y^'b 1 ^ '■ J w /^i i j' Now -ii]>p'»>- wi- come down to plain matter of fact, and let me ask each one 



* - - " I. lA*^c fj fiSS^' Ep^pH who reads these tew line> could such a result be accomplished with 



'■J*' ir^^&ft^^V^^^^/" * fe^ - f T- 1*1 • poor seeds? Will not every one say no? Then let me ask any one who has 



^■j;v>^.-t£ 1 jpf— -1 p j Prjffi fghu never sown Maule's Seeds, who receives this catalogue, why not send me an 

 y^S- ^35=^=§^SjjKL*|^i fc&lsSf order this coming season of 188". I know it will be in your interest to do so, and 



sKe£^^^S j hope you will, even if you are entirely satisfied with where you have been deal- 

 ing, send me an order, anyway. Test Maule's Seeds alongside of what you have 

 been planting. If you do, I am certain to receive your entire order another year. 

 This has been the experience of thousands of others. Why should it not be yours ? 

 Don't expect, however, to buy Maule's Seeds at low prices. Maule's ARE NOT 

 cheap seeds, and prices asked for them are among the highest in the trade. When you harvest your crops, however, you will find 

 them the cheapest seeds you have ever bought. I trust, not a single person receiving this catalogue will fail to plant at least a few of 

 Maule's Seeds in 1887 ; a year that promises to surpass any other we have had for a long time in general prosperity, and a year in which I hope to 

 double anv previous record made in my own business. With best wishes to all, I remain yours to command. 



WM. HENRY MAULE. 



flj D All Garden Seeds, except in Market Gardener's List, are delivered free. When seeds are ordered \ 



Oy express, purchaser paying charges, 15c. per lb. & 30c. per qt. may be deducted from prices quoted, j 



MAULE'S BLOOD TURNIP BEET. 



The Blood Turnip beet is known the world over as a most desirable 

 variety, and there are any number of strains, good, bad, and in- 

 different. Having grown what I consider the most desirable and care- 

 fully-selected of all these various stocks, I have for several years been 

 supplying it to thousands of my customers, to their entire satisfac- 

 tion.' It is nearly as early as the Egyptian, but surpasses the latter 

 variety in flavor. Color a rich, dark-red; roots fine-grained, globular- 

 shaped, with small top. Free from side or fibrous roots, and is always 

 remarkably smooth. Excellent for forcing, and moreover, it is a very 

 superior keeper, thus making it also desirable for winter use. Cooks 

 sweet, tender, and crisp, and in every way may be considered the stand- 

 ard sort for the market and home gardener. Has made a good crop 

 seven weeks from sowing. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; % lb., 30 cts.; lb., S1.00. 



MAULE'S IMPROVED HANSON LETTUCE. 



I have no hesitancy in savins; that its superior does not exist. 



These may appear to be strong words to use, but I think every customer 

 this season planting this strain off Hanson Lettuce will willingly 

 acknowledge the above to be correct. The branching leaves are of a 

 beautiful green color, slightly curled, while the inner leaves, which form 

 the head, present a white appearance, and are as tender as if blanched. 

 It forms a very large head, at times attaining a weightof 3 lbs. each and 

 over. When eaten, it has a rich, nutty flavor, and is almost absolutely 

 free from any strong or bitter taste. It resists wonderfully well sum- 

 mer heat and drought, and is in everv wav the sort for the market or 

 family gardener. NO PRAISE IS TOO HIGH FOR ITS MERITS. 



Last season I offered S25.U0 as a cash prize for heaviest head of Maule's 

 Improved Hanson Lettuce raised last summer. Reports received were 

 simply astonishing; 4 and 5 pound heads were raised by the score. The 

 $2-5.00 were secured by Mr. W . P. Mast, Fairview, Oregon, with a head 

 weighing 9614 ounces. This seems almost beyond belief, and I doubt if a 

 heavier head" of any variety was ever raised. This stamps Improved 

 Hanson as not only the flnest of all, hut also the largest of all. 



It is with much regret I have to announce that one of my crops was an 

 utter failure the past summer, so that for 1887 I can offer my Improved 

 Hanson in small quantities only. Hkt., 15 cts.; oz., 40 cts. 



Starn's Favorite Market Muskmelon. 



In our travels the past summer we discovered an extra fine musk 

 melon in the hands of a very careful and successful melon grower in 

 South Jersey. On inquiry I found that he had none of the seed for sale, 

 another Philadelphia house having secured his entire crop with the in- 

 tention of offering it as a leading novelty for 188". In the course of the 

 conversation we lound the above-named grower had procured his seed 

 last season from Bridgeton, N. J. Mr. Chas. F. Dare, who has a drug 

 store there, having advertised it last season under the name of the 

 "Bridgeton Favorite." As the melon promised to be a good thing, and 

 just the sort to please all market growers. I looked further into the mat- 

 ter, and discovered that Mr. E. W. Starn, of Fairton, N. J., one of my 

 customers, was the originator, and that as all who had seen the melon 

 growing on his farm had desired to purchase seed, he had furnished 

 the above-named Mr. Dare with seed to meet these numerous demands 

 from his neighbors. As Mr. Starn's melon promises, without a doubt, to 

 be the best selling and shipping musk melon in the market, I at 

 once secured his entire crop. I now offertft for the first time as Starn's 

 Favorite Market Melon, certain that it will meet the views of all melon 

 raisers as the most desirable market variety in cultivation at the present 

 time. Mr. Starn discovered in a five-acre field of Nutmeg melous a 

 number of years ago one hill entirely distinct from anything else in the 

 patch. From this one hill he saved every seed, and the next season, by 

 planting sparingly, he had one acre of as tine melons as were ever 

 grown in South Jersey, all true to type. He has grown them, to the 

 exclusion of other varieties, ever since, annually planting from 10 to 15 

 acres, and they have always sold at good prices the entire season, and 

 many times at two and three times the price of other sorts. They 

 are nearly round, just a little oblong, very thickly netted, with very 

 thick, green flesh ; very rich and spicy, and one of the very best-flavored 

 In cultivation. They are very shy seeders, the cavity for seed in many 

 of them is so small that if they were all seed inside the flesh, they could 

 not contain many. They are very attractive in appearance, and a good 

 shipper. Mr. Starn has never had a grower see or taste them but 

 wanted some of the seed. In addition to their attractive appearance 

 and most excellent shipping qu alities, the y are also an enormous crop- 

 per, and will be pronouncedLw .tlifki WsijW^* 1 them as certainly a favor- 

 ite and most profitable ]iMfflSAVWieW.SWj£tlir the direct headquarters 

 seed, raised by Mr. Star/vjprrrself, as folio wsVPkl^, 20 cts.; 3 pkts., 50 cts 



s 



ting $10 



PECIAL DISCOUNTS ON SEEDS IN PACKETS. 



In addition to S500 in prizes offered on page 17, to make it all the easier for one andTWJ to niUaaajajclHibs^iifft-ge or small, for Maule's 

 Seeds, I allow on all orders the following discounts on both Garden and Flower seeds in | iirT fit iffjnj i n fur i \ i inillin SI. 00 can select 

 seeds, in packets only, to the value of 81.30. Purchasers remitting S'3.00 can select seeds, in packets only, to the value of 83.75. Pur- 

 chasers remitting 83.00 can select seeds, in packets only, to t lie value of 8*.25. Purchasers remitting 84.00 can select seeds, in packets 

 only, to the value of 85.70. Purchasers remitting 85.00 can select seeds, in packets onlv, to the value of 87.35. «5*Purchasers remit- 



S10.00 can select seeds, i' i packets only, to the value of 815.00. — _ 



S<Z*S OF CO.VGjf^s. 



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