MAULE'S GENUINE SUREHEAD CABBAGE. 



ALL HEAD AND ALWAYS SURE TO HEAD. 



This will make the 25th consecutive year during which I have boomed this greatest of great cabbages.. 



MAULE'S GEXIIXE SUREHEAD Pretended rivals of the cele- 

 brated Surehead cabbage may be offered to the public from time to 

 time ; but I do not think any one of them is likely to outstrip Surehead 

 in the great race. The new comers finally get into their true places, and 

 usually take a back seat. 



1 watch with great care all the new candidates for favor, and test 



while no serious complaints, even in isolated cases, have ever been 

 made against this justly celebrated and populur cabbage, thousands of 

 tongues'and pens are ready to tell of its worth. Hence, I say again, if 

 you want a cabbage all head and always sure to head, you will find it in 

 Maule's Genuine Surehead. Its only rival at this time, in my opinion,, 

 is the celebrated Lupton, which I introduced a few years ago, and which 



them at Briar Crest, and am often willing to admit that their claims is doing well everywhere; but this admission of the great merit of Dup- 

 are partially or locally true ; but I still think that Surehead for main ton does not in the least detract from the name and fame of Surehead. 

 crop will do the most good for the most people, and for the 25th time I i Maule's Surehead is a cabbage of the general type of Prize Flat Dutch 

 urge my customers to get the genuine, headquarters stock, and to be | and Prize Drumhead, with the same large, deep, somewhat flattened 

 satisfied with nothing else. No other cabbage in America to-day has head, and the same high qualities; but somewhat finer in texture and 



all the merits of Maule' s Genuine Surehead, nor as many merits, 

 possibly excepting the new Lupton. (See Specialties.) 



People who have never sown Maule's Surehead do not know what the 

 best cabbage is; do not know that the characteristic features of the best 

 American cabbages can be and have been blended into a single type by 



with less spread of leaves. It is a late variety, with head as large as. 

 Flat Dutch. It is almost absolutely uniform in growth, having long ago 

 become a thoroughbred. The heads are firm and hard, and the cabbage 

 keeps well and is a splendid shipper, and is a variety certain to give 

 satisfaction for home use in Winter. I am sure that as now perfected 



skillful hybridizing. This was done a quarter of a century ago by an Maule's Surehead has no superior as a commercial cabbage 

 expert market gardener, the result is a cabbage better than its parents. This cabbage always justifies its name, always heads, even when 

 I The Surehead is the greatest and most profitable cabbage ever intro- other kinds fail. It may be planted somewhat closer in the field than 

 duced, that has, for such a long term of years, maintained so wide a other large, late varieties : for though it forms heads of equal weight, it 

 [popularity. This is proved by my long experience with it, and by the 1 has fewer spreading outside leaves. For planting distances I recom- 

 i testimony of over 100.000 planters, in all sections of the country, repre- 1 mend 2'< feet by 3 feet as compared to 2V„x3 feet for other large sorts, 

 i senting all conditions of soil, elevation, climate and cultural treatment. This difference" of three inches in the "row will amount to over 60* 

 I can truthfully repeat the statements made in former catalogues, that I plants to the acre, which is almost a clear gain in favor of Surehead. 

 Packet, io cents; ounce, 25 cents; quarter.pound, 75 cents; pound, S2.50. 



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