TT^ appears to have become the fashion in the seed trade for the 

 different firms to illustrate their seed warehouses, and as I have 

 ■* about as nice a store as can be found in Philadelphia, I thought, 

 this year, I would show my customers where the orders they send for 

 Maule's Seeds are filled. I believe when one has a good thing it does no 

 harm to let people know it. Now I have no doubt some people will 

 remark, on reading this, " Well, I think Maule's pretty good at blowing 

 his own horn." I admit it. but I argue I have many things to be proud 

 of. I have determined this year to give some solid, substantial facts in 

 regard to the wonderful popularity of Maule's Seeds. Few of my 

 customers, as well as few other seedsmen, have any idea of the immense 

 business annually done in them. First and foremost— my new store 

 is undoubtedly the handsomest Seed Warehouse in America, and what 

 is more, it is "the most completely arranged for conducting a mail and 

 express seed order business. Cut on opposite page will give some idea 

 of its mammoth proportions. Is not such a store, erected from cellar to 

 top story, especially for conducting the business annually done in 

 Maule's Seeds, something to be proud of! But this is not all, there 

 are many other _ . — _ , , 



SOLID FACTS, 



among which I might mention that 200,000 copies of Maule's Seed Cata- 

 logue for 1886 were mailed in less than six weeks; that as high as 1177 

 orders for Maule's Seeds have been received in a single day : that I have 

 cashed in one day at the Philadelphia Post-office as high as 13,661.15 in 

 money orders and postal notes; that extra seeds to the value of 55512 

 were presented free for trial to my customers in the spring of 1886: that 1 

 distributed in cash prizes among my customers last year $950. These few 



ACTUAL FACTS AND FIGURES 



are merely given to let one and all who read this Catalogue have some 

 idea of the popularity of Maule's Seeds, and before closing, I would 

 add, after giving you the above statements, am I not excused if I 

 am proud of this success? a success accomplished in ten years' time, 

 that many have tried a life-time to secure. The secret of this success 

 is wholly in the unsurpassed quality of Maule's Seeds and my 

 prompt and honorable dealings with every customer who favors 

 me with an order, if for a single packet or for hundreds of dollars. 



™n* p IY/1 Casli witli order, or satisfactory Philadelphia or 



I H I VI O ■ New York references. Money can be sent by i 

 office order, draft, or check. If you don't remit in any of these ways, 

 register the letter ; you can do this at any post-office in America. For 

 the expense of forwarding money. I will send seed as an equivalent. I 

 will send C. O. D. by express, on orders exceeding S10.00, if 25 per cent, of 

 the money is remitted with the order. I cannot ship C. O. D. by freight. 

 I receive postage stamps as cash. 



MY FOUR-LEAF CLOVER GUARANTEE. 



I. SAFE ARRIVAL I guarantee that 



all goods sold by me shall reach my 

 customers in good order. 



II. MONEY INSURED.— I guarantee 

 to hold myself responsible for the safe 

 arrival of all remittances sent me by 

 post-office order, draft, check, or regis- 

 tered letter. 



III. FREE BY MAIL,.— I guarantee to 

 deliver all garden and flower seeds 

 (except at prices given on page 52), 

 free of all charges. 



IV. AS REPRESENTED.— I guaran- 

 tee my seeds to be just as represented. 

 If they prove otherwise, I will refill 

 the order free of charge: but it must 

 be understood that I do not guarantee 

 the crop any further than to refill 

 the order. 



WHAT MORE COILD BE ASKED ! I guarantee every thing but 

 the crop. Protected from loss by this most liberal of all guarantees, 

 every one can rest assured ot the most entire satisfaction in every trans- 

 action. Will you kindly favor me with your order as soon after you re- 

 ceive this Catalogue as it is convenient for you to send it, although no 

 matter if you wait until the busiest part of the season, you may depend 

 on getting your seeds promptly, my facilities are so complete; still I like 

 to have all orders I can obtain as early as possible. 



If my customers keep on raising such mammoth vegetables, the above I 

 exaggerated illustration may not seem so improbable a way after all, a i 

 few years from now, of handling the product of Maule's Seeds. What, 

 with 24S\i pound pumpkins, 128 pound watermelons, 50 to 60 pound cab- 

 bages, etc., there seems to be no limit to the mammoth proportions that 

 Maule's vegetables can be grown. 



Below will be found a list of prize vegetable growers for 18S6. In many 

 cases vegetables were sent to me and weighed at my store. When this 

 was not done, a statement, signed and sworn to by two reliable witnesses, | 

 was required. These sworn statements were carefully examined and ! 

 proved correct, so that I am satisfied the money has been paid to the; 

 proper persons. Every fall I am in receipt of false affidavits, but t hey are i 

 soon discovered and thrown out. .Let all enter the competition for 1887 I 

 determined to win, and let all be very sure that the best man will win. 



"IV. P. MAST, Fair-view, Oregon, received $25.00 lor a head of Han- 

 son Lettuce weighing 98% ounces. 



JOHN PARKS, New Madison, O.. received S25.00 for a plant of 

 Improved Prolific Tree Beans containing -197 pods. 



ALFRED ROSE, Penn Yan, N. Y., received $50.00 for a vine of 

 First of All Beans, containing 101 pods. 



S. F. CHAPIN, M. D., Los Angeles, Cal., received §50.00 for a 

 Perfection Melon weighing 17 pounds. 



CASS RAF ALEE, Dundee, N. Y., received S25.00 for a Banana Cit- 

 ron measuring 38 inches in length. 



JOHN G. MILLER, Stone Mountain, Ga., received $50.00 tor a 

 Mammoth Ironclad Watermelon weighing 128 pounds 



WM. P. MAST, Fairview, Oregon, received $50.00 for a Silver King 

 Weighing 3 1 < lbs. (Mr. M. would bave rec ived $100 had his oniou been larger than last year's.) 



G. W. WILSON, Mansfield, Pa., received $2§.00 for a Ruby King 

 Pepper weighing 11 ounces. 



JOHN H. MASON, Union City, Mich., received S50.00 for a Potiron 

 Pumpkin weighing 248M pounds. 



RUDOLPH BAHRINGER, Mill Creeh, Lnd., received S25.00 for a 

 Stuttgart Radish weighing 20% pounds. 



AUGUST BEYER, South Bend, lnd., received S59.00 for a head of 

 Sure-Head Cabbage weighing 60 pounds 6 ounces. 



ALEXANDER NEIHART, Delta, Neb., received $25.00 for a Pine- 

 apple Squash weighing 15 pounds. 



MRS. MARTHA PRICE, Colfax, Iowa, received $25.00 for a Mam- 

 moth Squash weighing 187 pounds. 



GEO. F. MONTGOMERY, Pownal, Vt., received $25.00 for a head 

 of Improved Brunswick Cabbage weighing 55 pounds. 



ALEXANDER NEIHART, Delta, Neb., received $25.00 for raising 

 230)4 pounds of Peerless Wheat from one packet. 



A customer wrote me last spring that he had no doubt I paid the 

 premiums offered, but I was always careful, he imagined, to let my 

 friends get the money, and that there was no chance for an outsider. 

 This I most positively deny. I do not know a single one of the prize 

 winners of either 188-5 or 1886 better than I do you who are now reading 

 this. Would not know one of them if I saw them in Philadelphia, and 

 never had any dealings with any of them further than to fill their orders 

 in the spring, and to send them a check for the premium they had won, 

 either July 1st or November 1st. Rest assured every one who tries for 

 one of the SI 300 casli prizes stands as good a chance as any one else. 



$1500 in Cash Prizes for 1887! 



On page 17 I offer $500 for the fifty-six largest club orders for packets and 

 ounces sent me the coming season. In addition I also offer $1000 for 

 prize vegetables, which will be awarded October 1st, 1887, as follows:— 



sioo 



100 



50 

 50 

 50 



85 

 35 



35 

 35 

 35 



35 

 35 



35 

 15 

 10 



35 



35 

 25 

 35 

 25 

 35 

 35 



35 

 35 

 35 

 15 

 10 

 50 

 50 

 50 



for the heaviest S1600 TURNER HYBRID TOMATO. 



for the heaviest GENUINE SURE-HEAD CABBAGE. 



for the heaviest MA MMOT H SILVER KING ONION. 



for the heaviest MAMMOTH IRON CLAD WATERMELON. 



for the heavier MAULE'S PERFECTION MUSKMELON. 



for the heaviest pineapple squash. 



for largest number of pods grown on a plant of IMPROVED 



TREE BEANS, 

 for the longest BANANA MUSKMELON. 



forth, heaviest IMPROVED BRUNSWICK CABBAGE. 



for the vine containing greatest number of pods of IVORY POD 

 WAX BEANS. 



for the longest and handsomest pod of GREEN GEM BEANS, 

 for the largest and handsomest pod of SALEM IMPROVED 

 LIMA BEANS. 



for the heaviest MAULE'S IMPROVED LONG RED BEET. 



for the heaviest ECLIPSE BEET. 



for the heaviest BASTIAN'S EARLY RED BEET. 



for the heaviest of either of the following four Mangels : — MAM- 

 MOTH PRIZE LONG RED. CHAMPION YELLOW 

 GLOBE, YELLOW TANKARD, or the JUMBO MANGEL. 



for the heaviest head of LARGE YORK CABBAGE. 



for the heaviest head of TOURAVILLE CABBAGE. 



for the heaviest head of MAULE'S PRIZE CAULIFLOWER. 



for the heaviest LONG ORANGE CARROT, 



for the largest and heaviest PEERLESS CUCUMBER. 



for the largest number of MAULE'S EARLY" WHITE SPINE 

 CUCUMBERS raised on three vines in a single hill. 



for the largest ear of MAULE'S MAMMOTH SUGAR CORN. 



for the heaviest NEW MONTREAL NUTMEG MUSKMELON. 



for the heaviest KOLB GEM WATERMELON. 



for the heaviest COLORADO PRESERVING MELON. 



for the heaviest PRIDE OF GEORGIA WATERMELON. 



for largest and best shaped RED WETHERSFIELD ONION. 



for the largest and best shaped DANVERS YELLOW ONION. 



for the largest PUMPKIN of anv of the ten varieties I catalogue. 



TERMS OF COMPETITION :— All prize vegetables must be raised 

 from seed purchased of me this spring. When vegetables are not required 

 to be sent to me, a report, signed by two thoroughly reliable and well 

 known witnesses, and sworn to before a Justice of the Peace, is ne- 

 cessary. This $100) is bound to be distributed among my customers. 

 Then why cannot yon be successful ? It is certainly wortb trying. 

 ^<-jc=>S »0 for M oz. of Tomato seed is at the rate of £1600 per pound. Such a 

 price was never paid before, yet this year I offer seed raised from this ex- 

 pensive stock seed at 2u cts. per pkt.; $1.00 per i-i oz. 



