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rule's SEEDS are M2T CHEAP SEEDS 



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fl M In any sense, nor do I compete wi'th such seeds. It will be noticed that many of my 

 M A Specialties are sold at much hig-her prices than those asked by others, simply 

 because they cost more to grow, AND ARE" "WORTH IT IN EVERY CASE. When you harvest 

 your crops you will readily agree with me. and find, as my other customers have done, 

 THAT THEY WERE REALLY THE CHEAPEST SEEDS YOU EVER PURCHASED. For 

 the benefit of new readers of this book, however, who have been accustomed to buying 



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demand the last five years 2 

 lor this magnificent Celery has always - 

 exceeded my supply. Last year was as bad J 

 as the year before. Almost every order 

 seemed to want from 1 to 10 packets of Golden 1 

 S. Pell-Blanching until I had sold almost even - grain of 2 

 seed on hand. IT HAS PROVED AHEAD OF ' 

 EVERY OTHER IN CULTIVATION. NOTHING 1 

 LIKE IT HAS EVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE. P 

 Golden Self-Blanching, besides being remarkably stockv and a S 

 wonderfully strong grower, is very heavy, perfectly sdlid, of a n 

 delicious sweet flavor, and with nil ih. points 1b a 2 

 wonderful keeper. One would think that these would be a 

 sufficient number of good qualities, but to all these is added *- 

 THE WONDERFUL QUALITY OF SELF-BLANCH- 2 

 ING to a very remarkable extent. Without bankln«-np, 

 or any covering to speak of, even tlie outer ribs 

 become of a yellowish while color, the heart being large, 

 solid, and of a beautiful golden-yellow color. Every celery grower 

 should test Golden Self-Blanching this season without fail. " As a 

 variety that needs no banking It is recommended to 

 all. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 40 cents; % pound, 

 .35 ; pound, $4.00 ; two pounds, $7.00. 



their seeds at the country stores and paying five cents per package for the same I give below a list of Maule's 

 Seeds that are sold at the same price, in order to convince them that MANY STANDARD AND EXCELLENT VARIETIES 

 OF MAULE'S SEEDS can be purchased for the same money that they have been paying for a much inferior article. 



ASPARAGUS— Conover's Colossal. 

 BEETS— Dark Red Egyptian. 



Philadelphia Eariy Turnip. 



Bastian's Early Red. 



Early Bassano. 



Edmand's Turnip. 



Half Long Blood. 



Imperial Sugar. 

 MANGELS— The Jumbo 



Maule's Gate Post. 



Mammoth Prize Long Red. 



Yellow Tankard. 



Maule's Champion Yellow Globe. 

 CA BBAOJES— Maule's Dwarf York. 



Early Touraville. 



New Filderkraut. 



Improved Drumhead Savov. 



Blood Red Erfurt. 



Red Dutch. 

 CARROTS— New Oxheart. 



Early Scarlet Horn. 



Early Half Long Scarlet 



Maule's Improved Long Orange. 



New Chantenay. 



Red Saint Vallery. 



Large White Vosges. 



Large White Belgian. 



Large Yellow Belgian. 

 CELERV- Crawford's Half Dwarf. 



Large White Solid. 

 CUCUMB Ell-Early Russian. 



Early Green Cluster. 



Early Frame. 



White Japan. 



Short Green. 



Improved Arlington. 



Tailhy's Hybrid. 



Jersey Pickle. 



Chicago Pickle. 



Nichol's Medium Green. 



Extra Long White Spine. 



Maule's Early White Spine. 



Green Prolific. 

 EGG PLANT— Early Long Purple. 

 LETTUCE— Tennis Ball. 



Salamander. 



All-the-Year-Round. 



Boston Curled. Green Fringed. 



Early Prize Head. Passion. 



Cala. Butter. Buttercup. 



Marblehead Mammoth. 



Cos. Mixed. 

 MUSK. MELON-Netted Gem. 



Stam's Favorite. 



Maule's Prize Jenny Lind. 



Early Improved Christiana. 



Vick's Early 

 Mountain Sweet. 

 Peerless. 



True Dark Icing. 



Boss. 



Volga. 



MUSK MELON. -Continued. 



Casaha. 



Hackensack. 



Baltimore. 



Maule's Bay View. 



Nutmeg. Banana. 



Emeraid Gem. 



Extra Earlv Hackensack. 

 WATER MELON— Hung' n Honey. 



Green and Gold. 



Phinney's Early. 



Mountain Sprout. 



Kolb Gem. 



Scaly Bark. 



Christmas. 



Georgia Rattlesnake. 



Black Spanish. Pride of Georgia. 



Colorado Preserving. 

 ONION-Maule's Wethersfield. 



Maule's Danvers Yellow. 



New Queen. Marzajola. 



New Giant Pompeii. 



New Giant Rocca of Naples. 



Mammoth Red Tripoli. 



Giant White Tripoli. 



Extra Early Red. 



silver Skin. Red Globe. 



White Globe. Yellow Dutch. 

 PEPPERS-Sweet Spanish. . 



Large Bell or Bull Nose. 



Sweet Mountain. 



Spanish Monstrous. 

 PARSLEY-Plain. 



Fern Leaved. 



Double Curled. 

 PARSNIP-Early Short Round. 



Improved Long Smooth. 

 PUMPKIN-Mam. or Large Tours. 



Cashaw or Crookneck. 



Large Cheese. 



Mammoth Etampes. 



Golden Marrow. 

 RADISH— French Breakfast 



Early Deep Scarlet Olive. 



White Turnip, 



Eaflv Scarlet Turnip. 



White Box. 



Maule's Long Scarlet 



Chartiers. 



White Strashurg. 



Golden Summer Turnip. 



Glani Stuttgart 



China Rose Winter. 



Black Spanish Winter. 



White Spanish Winter. 



California Mammoth Winter. 



SQUASH— Early White Bush. 

 Early Yellow Bush. 

 Golden Summer Crookneck. 

 Brazil Sugar. 



Perfect Gem. Pineapple. 



Boston Marrow. Marblehead. 



Cocoanut. New Red China. 



Olive. The Sibley. 



Prolific Marrow. Bav State. 

 SALSIFY— Long White! 

 SPINACH— Bound Leaved. 



Long Standing. 

 TOMATO— Mayflower. 



Optimus. Paragon. 



Perfection. Selected Acme. 



Favorite. 

 TURNIP— Red Top Strap Leaved. 



Early Flat Dutch. 



Extra Early Munich. 



Golden Ball. 



Yellow Aberdeen. 



White Globe. 



( ow Horn. 



Large Yellow Globe. 



Large White Norfolk. 



Early White Six Weeks. 



White Egg. 

 RUTA BAG A— Improved Purple Top. 



Sutton's Champion. 



White Rock. 



Large White French. 



Imperial Hardv. 

 BR USS E LS SI' It OUTS-Improved. 

 C V. L Kit lAC-Turnip Rooted. 

 CHICORY. 



COLLAR OS-True Georgia. 



CORN SA LAD— New Round Leaved. 



CR KSS-Extra Curled. 



ENDIVE— Green Curled. 



KALE— Dwarf Green Curled. . 



Green Curled Scotch. 

 KOII L RABI-Large White. 

 LEEK— Broad Flag. 

 MUSTARD— White. 



Black. New Chinese. 



NASTURTIUM— Tall. Dwarf. 

 OK It A— Dwarf Green. 



Lone Green. 

 It II UBA K B— Victoria. 

 II ERBS— Anise. 



Halm. Basil, Sweet 



Caraway. Coriander. 



Dill. Fennel, Sweet 



Horebound. Lavender. 



Marjoram, Sweet Rue. Sage. 



Summer Savorv. Winter Savorv. 



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L« THE ABOVE CHOICE VARIETIES CFNT^ F7FE? VdCKFT 



OLD AT THE UNIFORM PRI"TJ OF *■— * I W F LalA F lIVlVL 1 



PACKETS, FOR ©l.OO ; 300 PACKETS, FOR SIO.OO. 



A 230 POUND PUMPKIN. 



Mr. SheHahcrger. of Eighth Avenue, this place, hand us 

 the following item from the Hamilton, M >., Nrw.i-Qrap/iic. 

 concerning pumpkl ns raised at that place by a former neighbor 

 of his. We publish more especially to show our Beaver Count v 

 nirmerswhat may he dam- by persistent effort : John Rohl- 

 nette, who resides on his farm four miles west of town, is un- 

 doubtedly the champion pumpkin raiser of the Stirte if not 

 Hie failed .-states. Two years ago be raised a pumpkin that 



weighed 210 pounds, with which he captured the $50 prize 

 offered by Wm. Henry Maule, the Philadelphia seedsman, 

 for the largest pumpkin or squash. This year Mr. Maule 

 offers $110 On Saturday last Mr. Rohlnette brought a mam- 

 moth pumpkin to town to have It weighed in the presence of 

 Several witnesses, that tipped the scales at 230 pounds. This 

 will surely capture the prize and the championship of Amer- 

 ica. Hurrah, for John Rohlnette, grand old Missouri anil 

 Caldwell County !— Beaver Falls, Pa., Trihune. 



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T ESTED 

 SEEDS 



I want to say a word about 

 TESTED SEEDS. I have never 

 talked very much about selling tested 

 seeds, simply from the fact that I con- 

 sider every fionest seedsman should test 

 his seeds and know what he is sending 

 out. for years past J have made the must 

 complete greenhouse and open ground texts 

 without making much ado about U. Recently g 

 I had an artist visit Briar Crest, my coun- J 

 try home, and sketch a number of views. • 

 thinking they would prove interesting 5 

 to mv customers. They will be found scat- h 

 tcred through various parts of this book, ** 

 and I think I have improved tL_ appear- X 

 ance of it considerably. Almost all the C 

 cultivated ground at Briar Crest, amount- % 

 ing to quite a number of acres, is used in >i 

 testing in the open ground, not only the JJ 

 varieties of seeds I sell myself, but also if 

 those offered by other seedsmen. In 5 

 addition to these open ground tests, I » 

 have greenhouses erected especially for -f* 

 testing seeds, as to their germinating f 

 qualities. Of course living right on the tf 

 spot, alt this work is done under my per- - 

 Bonal supervision, and is under my own 5 

 eye at all times, consequently I can say « 

 With good cause that I consider Maule's £" 

 Seeds arc tested as thoroughly as any on — 

 the market; in tact, my "being so well >r 

 acquainted with just how good they are, - 

 from these self-same tests, is one reason »5 

 why I have always Insisted so posl- B 

 lively that better seeds than » 

 Maule's were never sold. G 



Views of "Briar Crest" will be found on . 

 pages. 7. 60, 72, 80 and 84. > 



