MAULE'S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1901. 



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The Nameless Cabbage. 



An English variety Now First Offered in America. 



$50 for the Best Report, Good, Bad or In- 

 different, Received, in Regard to the 

 Nameless Cabbage Before Nov. 1, 1901. 

 $25 for the 2nd Best, $15 for the 3rd Best, 

 $10 for the 4th Best 

 a Sample Packet Free if Your Order 

 Amounts to 50 Gents or Upwards. 

 1 wish to introduce an English bred cabbage 

 to American farmers and gardeners, and Will 

 tell the story frankly. Last year, while travel- 

 ing in England, I found a cabbage tnat at once 

 attracted my attention. I found it to be 

 medium early with very compact, fair sized 

 heads, and of "evident high breeding. The head 

 was neither pointed nor round, but between the 

 two, and suggested the Charleston Wakefield. 

 It is a well-known fact that English cabbage 

 will not, as a rule, do well in America; but I 

 think in The Xameless, I have a variety that 

 may prove satisfactory on this side of the 

 Atlantic; and if it does do well, it will certainly 

 prove a very desirable variety. Now I have 

 not tested this cabbage at all at Briar Crest; I 

 only know it from what I discovered while 

 traveling in England last summer. I have 

 great laith in it; but 1 can make no positive 

 claims for it until it has been tried in various 

 soils and situations, and has been put to the 

 test of American field culture. There is, of 

 course, a possibility that this splendid English 

 cabbage will not flourish under American con- 

 ditions. However, I will pay S100 for the 4 best 

 and most conscientious reports of its merits or 

 demerits, no matter what happens. Xext year 

 I hope to be able to give this grand cabbage a 

 name, and to be able to say that it is as good a 

 citizen under a President, as it was a subject 

 under a Queen. I mean to naturalize it on 

 short notice. 



No Seed Will be Sold This Year Under any Circumstances; ^orthofseeds^from 



free trial packet has the privilege of competing for the $100 in prizes offered to the persons sending me before November 1, 1901, the most trust- 

 worthy reports, good or bad, descriptive of Xameless Cabbage. The only condition attending the reports is that the writers must have obtained 

 seed of the Xameless Cabbage in the manner stated above. Only one free trial package supplied each customer, no matter how large the order. 



THE NAMELESS CABBAGE. A Trial Packet Free With Every Order Amounting to 50 Cents or More. 



Red Polish 

 Short-Stemmed Cabbage. 



The Most Profitable Red Variety. 



This new red cabbage is the best of its type- 

 It is a vigorous grower and quite hardy. The 

 heads are of a dark red color, and are extremely 

 firm and heavy. The stem is short, and there 

 are but few outer leaves, and it therefore re- 

 quires only a moderate amount of room in the 

 row. The quality of the cabbage is excellent, 

 and I feel able to recommend it highly. The ; 

 outside leaves are somewhat crumpled at the 

 edges, giving the plant a pleasing and rather 

 ornamental appearance. The well-shaped head 

 is shown in the illustration. Some of the 

 smaller red cabbages have leaves so spreading 

 as to actuallv require more room for growth 

 than this one. The Xew Red Polish Short- 

 (Stemmed is the most profitable sort with which • 

 I am acquainted, and will prove satisfactory in 

 all respects to grower, cook and pickle maker. 

 Packet, 10 cents; ounce, '25 cents; pound, 

 75 cents; pound, SioO. 



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NEW RED POLISH SHORT-STEMMED. 



$1.00 buys 

 $2.00 bays 

 $5.00 bays 



$1.30 In 

 $2.75 In 

 $7.50 In 



packets and 

 packets and 

 packets and 



ounces, 

 ounces, 

 ounces. 



CHARLESTON WAKEFIELD CABBAGE. 



Charleston Wakefield Cabbage. (TrueType.) 



An Improved and Larger Form of Jersey Wakefield. 



The Early Jersey Wakefield cabbage, with its little pointed heads, has held its place decade 

 after decade in the esteem of market gardeners, out of sheer merit. It has the serious short- 

 coming of being very small in size, but it is so reliably early and so genuinely good that noth- 

 ing can wholly supersede it or drive it out of the markets. 



The Charleston Wakefield is an improved and larger form of Early Jersey Wakefield. It re 

 quires ratber more time to reach maturity, but it yields fully twice the crop of the original 

 Wakefield cabbage. It is about a week or 10 days later than its parent, and conies along as a 

 close succession to the earliest cabbage crop. It is a strain which cannot be profitably over- 

 looked by any gardener, whether it is intended for a private house or to be sent to market. All 

 the market gardeners near the great cities plant Charleston Wakefield for second early cab- 

 bage, and there is no better second early sort. It has a less pointed head than its ancestor. 



It is all important to get the true strain of seed, as there has unquestionably been much 

 I spurious stock sold under the name of Charleston Wakefield, resulting in disappointment and 

 I loss to the grower. I have the the best selected strain in the world, and can recommend it to all. 

 i Charleston Wakefield is a good keeper and may be planted as a second crop, to mature in 

 the autumn, if desired. It is a first rate shipper, and in high favor with everybody who 

 knows it. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 35 cents; % pound, S1.00; pound, $3.50. 



