32 — Vegetable Seeds 



THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1912 



Sweet or Sugar Corns 



Culture. — Sweet corn always does well on sod land, or where clover I shallow culture. Leave two or three stalks to the hill, and make suc- 

 has been turned down. Plant when danger of frost is over, in hills 2s:-i cesslonai plantings until nearly mid-summer. Use one quart for 600 

 feet, or 3x4 feet, according to variety. Give frequent and continued | hills; six to eight quarts per acre. Cover seed with an inch of soil. 



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Maule's Colossal Early Sugar Corn 



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MAULE'S COLOSSAL EARLY SUGAR CORN. 



First Offered in 1911 



The Finest Sugar Corn 

 in Existence 



The first real rival of the Shoe Peg or 

 Country Gentlemen, as large as Stowell's 

 EvergTeen, and of delicious flp^vor. 

 Frequently matures fine large 

 ears teoi weeks from planting. 



Maule's Colossal has three principal points that 

 especially recommend it : 



First — Earliness. It has matured a crop in from 58 

 to 62 days under extraordinary circumstances, but can 

 generally be depended on to come to maturity inside 

 of 70 days. 



Second — Flavor. It is the most delicious sugary 

 corn you have ever eaten. 



Third — Size. It is undoubtedly the largest eared 

 early sugar corn in existence, as the ears average 

 from 7 to 9 inches in leugih, and frequently 2J to 3 

 inches in diameter, with 12 to 14 rows of large sweet 

 kernels that fairly melt in your mouth. 



Two or three ears are generally found on every 

 stalk; it grows from 6 to 7 feet tall, which furnishes a 

 most desirable fodder. 



Mr. C. S. Clark, of Ohio, one of the largest growers 

 of sweet corn in America has this to say : 



"Your Colossal Sweet Corn planted May 14th, 1910, laid in 

 the cold ground ore month before it came up. This was 

 due to tl.e fact that Jlay and the fore part of last June hold the 

 record as the colc^e^'t months ever known in Oliio at this sea- 

 son of the year. During all those four weeks of cold, this corn 

 stuck and "hung to life and grew, and we got a good stand of It, 

 and it came on and made the best crop of sv eet corn in North- 

 ern Ohio where hundreds of acres of all sorts are grown. 



'■This is a fact, that it is the best field of sweet corn today in 

 all this section. Therefore, ■ne have a right to te more than 

 pleased with this corn. The ears are nearly as large as Stow- 

 ell's, and it is sweet and tender and of fine qv.alily, v ith fodder 

 just as large and more ears per stalk on the average. 



"Jlarket gardeners, canners, hotels and the swf et corn grow- 

 ers will appreciate having this variety to ccme In just after 

 the early sorts are pnne and before the late soj Is are ready. It 

 is a verv strong grower, and 1 have never seen a sweet corn 

 which grows the ears so far away from the stalk on a long 

 strong shank, ears up 3 feet from the ground, rraking it the 

 most convenient corn to pick off the stalk 1 ever saw.'' 



I had a crop grown in Connecticut by Mr. Willard, 

 former President of the American Seed Trade Associa- 

 tion. In writing to me he has this to say : 



"We are much pleased with the appearance of this new^ 

 sweet corn, and think the name you have chosen, 'Colossal,' 

 would be verv appropriate. The prospect is for an exceedingly 

 nice yield. It is early for a large eared variety, and I believe 

 will prove to be a very popular sort." 



Colossal is a Genuine Money-Maker 

 if There Ever Was One 



Read this story. A prominent market gardener of 

 Philadelphia brought his first load of Colossal to mar- 

 ket. It sold like hot cakes. The next time he came 

 to town he had to put it under his stall so as not to 

 disappoint his customers of the week before. It sold 

 as quickly as before. With his second planting peo- 

 ple would no,t take good Stowell's or Country Gen- 

 tlemen until they found him sold out of Colossal. 

 Last year this market gardener planted one-half peck. 

 This coming year he will sow a bushel. This is only 

 one case; there were hundreds similar. Already, Oct. 

 1911, we are promised a large demand, and in conse- 

 quence solicit early orders. 



Packet, 10 cen*s; pint, 30 cents; quart. 50 cents; 2 quarts. 

 90 cents, postpaid. By express, or freight, not prepaid, 

 quart, 40 cents; 4 quarts, gl.lO: peck, $2.00; bushel, $7.50. 



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