fVI C Cash with order, or satisfactory Philadelphia 



J lOo or New York references. Money can be sent by 

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

 egister tlie letter; you can do this at any post-office in 

 a. For expense of forwarding money. I will send seed as an 

 ent I will send C. O. D. by express, on orders exceeding S10, 

 r cent, of the money is remitted with the order. I cannot 

 O. D. by freight. I receive postage-stamps as cash. 



AM prepared this season for tlie largest business ever done In Maule's <<■•«!«. 



1 now have me good-will and patronage of more than lou.000 of tue most successful 

 gardeners in America, and with good times for all ahead, in lact, staring every man in 

 the face. I certainly can not be blamed for anticipating a fair share in the general prosperitv. 

 it therefore is a source of great pleasure to me to be able to inform all my friends that while 

 of some lew things crops are short, owing to too much rain last summer, still, as a general 

 rule, 1 have harvested of many varieties larger crops than ever before, 

 consequently a close inspection of these pages will show many things quoted at lower prices 

 than tor ten years past. This is especially true of onion and" many varieties of vine seeds. 



I made the statement in last year's catalogue that I would never be satisfied till Maule's 

 Seeds bad been tried and proven by every gardener throughout the length and breadth of 

 the laud. I am still just as determined as ever to accomplish this result. 

 It may not be tnis year or the next, but still not so far off as some mav think. Already 

 Maule's Seeds have been supplied direct to customers living at S.1.1J3 different post-ofiices 

 in the United States. XO OTHER FIRM CAM SAY THE SAME. Again, no other 

 seed company in America has been compelled, as I have beeu, to give un their wholesale 

 trade with dealers on account of the enormous increase in their mail order business. 

 What other house in America has ever offered in a single season t3,5i>0 in cash premiums 

 to their customers? What other house in America presents their customers annually more 

 than a quarter of a million separate packets of seeds, free, for trial ! \\ 1 at 

 other house in America has been compelled to have four separate departments lor 

 filling orders, each one containing a full line of every thing in which thev deal, in order 

 to send out their seeds promptly and in good order .'" To tell the truth I already stand 

 on the top round of the ladder in more things than one, and 1 have my 

 customers alone to thank for this grand result. 



For the benefit of the reader, who has never sown Maule's Seeds, I wish to sav right 

 here — try them in 1S90 and you will find better are not sold. Stri >ng words these, 

 you say, but I mean every word of it I am a comparativelv voung man vet. I am not 

 in this business for a day or even a year, but in it to stay as long as I have mv" health. I am 

 intelligent enough to know that poor seeds would be a "very weak foundation to build upon. 

 I have, I think, been a good advertiser and conduct my business on progressive principles 

 and abreast of the times, but what would these methods avail me If Maule's Seeds 

 were not of the very best! A business requiring the publishing of more than 

 one million catalogues in less than three years, a business requiring two such ware- 

 houses as are illustrated on the next two pages. Could such a business be built up 

 in a little over ten years time with poor seeds as a foundation! If everv 

 intelligent gardener who reads this and who has never sown Maule's Seeds will pause a 

 moment and ask himself the above question I think he will sav— Maule's Seeds must 

 have merit. I trust I am not too sanguine, but I hope to have "at least a trial order from 

 every gardener into whose hands this book mav come. Once a customer means 

 always a customer. Such has been the experience of thousands of others and it will 

 be yours as well. Hoping that the year 1S90 may always be looked back upon bv all of us 

 as one of the happiest and most prosperous years of our existence, I remain, 



Always yours to command, 'CO-m,. ft&mu filaule. 



years the cash premiums offered to the growers of the finest vegetables 

 Caule's Seeds have been a unique and distinctive feature of my 

 ss. The following are the terms of competition for prize vegetables : 



all vegetables not required to be sent me, charges prepaid, a report, signed 

 thoroughly reliable and well-known witnesses, and sworn to before a 



CLOVER 



e of the Peace, is necessary. By well-known witnesses I mean country 

 repers in good standing in the community. Competition is open to all, 

 ing those to whom I have paid ?100 or more in prizes within the last three 

 I think that any one who has been so successful as to secure as much as 

 ould be satisfied to withdraw for a time from the competition, as I do not 

 e to offer these premiums and pay a large share every year to the same 

 . who. by reason of an unusually favorable soil or location, may be better 

 1 to raise premium vegetables than others. Last year I advertised $3500 in 

 ims. Of this amount 41250 was paid last July and $2200 last Fall. 



E YOU A MARKET GARDENER ? 



(you raise truck to sell then, you ought to have my Special Price List for 

 t-Gardeners, which I expect to issue January loth. I have never, until this i 

 .. issued a price-list especially for market-gardeners, but at the earnest 

 jit of hundreds of my market-gardening customers— in all sections of the i 

 ~j — I have decided to publish such a price-list this year. It will be 

 id free to all Market-Gardeners, but as it is intended only for this 

 ular trade, I cannot send it to private gardeners, even if they apply for it. | 



ASKED ? 



liberal of all 



igbut 

 e can 



I. SAFE A R K I V A L..-I guarantee 

 that all goods sold by me shall reach 

 mv customers in good order. 

 MONEY ENSURED.— I guarantee 

 to hold myself responsible for the safe 

 arrival of all remittances sent me by 

 P. O. order, draft, check or registered 

 letter. 



III. FREE BY MAIL.- 1 guarantee 

 to deliver all garden and flower seeds, 

 except where quoted by peck. bus.. 

 bbL. or by the 100 lbs., free of all 

 charges. 



, IV. AS REPRESENTE D.-I 



!■ guarantee my seeds to be just as 

 • represented. If they prove otherwise. 

 J 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 f ' O IT, D BE 

 the crop. Protected from loss by this most 

 rest assured of the most entire satisfaction. 



SPW 



P/3Y 



r. T. Greiner, that Justly-celebrated writer and authority on gardening 

 horticultural topics, last Summer compiled the results of his notes and 

 'ience for many years into a voluminous and exhaustive book on the 



ct u/m«. TO MAKE THE 



GARDEN 



I have undertaken the publishing and placing 

 before the American public of this the best [ 

 and most practical work ever written for the 

 benefit of the American vegetable gardener. I 

 I am confident it will prove tlie steppinsr- 

 stone to successful gardening for many 

 thousands who are now unacquainted with this, 

 the noblest calling on earth, while I know it will 

 give many profitable common-sense ideas 

 to those who are even now high up in the 

 profession. In giving a brief summary of the 

 work, I cannot do better than quote the following i 

 from Mr. Greiner's introductory remarks in " How 

 to Make the Garden Pay :" 



"Gardening, in the minds of average people, is a , 

 dreadful combination in its requirements of skill and j 

 unceasing drudgery. Many, especially farmers, doubt ! 

 r ability to acquire the one without giving more time and thought ! 

 i they can afford to devote to the garden, and fear the other, hence, home 

 .ening is often at a discount. To disabuse the minds of the masses of this 

 too common error, to convince people in rural districts and in the suburbs i 

 ities. that gardening in reality is a very strong combination of pleasure, 

 ilth, and profit, and to point out the wavs and means how to relieve the task 

 all semblance of drudgery— that is one' of the aims, and perhaps the chief 

 ;, • f this volume. 



'• .Vhile in the following pases 1 shall attempt to teach the whole of the art. in 

 aspects that have been revealed to me during long years of practice, studv 

 d experiment, and propose to conform these instructions with the needs of the 

 w beginner, both in kitchen and market gardening, I am quite certain that 

 en the experienced horticulturist can find new truths and valuable suggestions 

 it, ind it will pay all— novice and expert— to look these pages over carefully. 



' Any one of the readers who thus far has remained in the old ruts, let him 

 rn >ver a new leaf and try the newer ways that I point out ; for gardening like 

 : i- what you yourself make of it— a paradise of pleasure or a veritable sh'eol of 

 • Igery. You have the decision in your own hands. You mav leisurely accom- 



• your visitors through the well-kept grounds that are beaming with thriftv. 

 Kling vegetation, as your own countenance is beaming with pleasure arid 

 faction, and that is as free from weeds as your face is free from care ; or you 



• crawl through the beds on hands and knees, piling up stacks of weeds, 

 ■ i a face sour and distorted in discontent and in hatred of vourself and the 



you are leading. My instructions, if faithfully followed, will insure you the 

 ter conditions, and save vou from the curse of' the latter." 



HOW T2 HAKE THE QrtRDEN PdT. 



Contains almost one hundred thousand words, is finely printed, 

 in large readable type. Is handsomely bound, copiously illustrated 

 at great expense with almost 200 practical illustrations, and is. in 

 all respects, both as to the matter it contains and the manner in 

 which it has been printed, bound and published, superior to any 

 work of its kind ever issued. 



It is not only a common-sense helper for every gardener, large or small, but 

 will also prove an ornament to any centre table. 



PRICE, S2.00, POST-PAID, XO AJiY ADDRESS. 



CHAPTER I. HOME GARDENING. -Gardening for pleasure. Health. Profit 

 and Moralitv. 



CHAPTER II. MARKET GARDENING AND TRUCK FARM ING.— Garden- 

 ing for nrofit onlv. 



CHAPTER III. FARMER'S KITCHEN GARDEN. — Selection of locality and 



arrangement of beds. 

 CHAPTER IV. REQUIREMENTS OF SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING. 



—Selection of soil and location. 

 CHAPTER V. HINTS IX MARKETING.— Secrets of success exposed. 

 CHAPTER VI. MANURES FOR THE GARDEN.— I. Stable manure and how 



to manage it. 



CHAPTER VII. MANURES FOR THE GARDEN.— II. Commercial Fertil- 

 izers, their value and use. 



CHAPTER VIII. MANURES FOR THE GARDEN.— III. Nitrates, wood-ashes, 

 and other specific fertilizers. 



CHAPTER IX. GARDEN IMPLEMENTS AND HOW TO USE THEM. 



CHAPTER X. COLD FRAMES.— Their construction and use. 



CHAPTER XI. MANURE H<>T BKIw. Their construction and use. 



CHAPTER XII. FIRE HOT BEDS AND THEIR CONSTRUCTION. 



CHAPTER XIII. (OLD FORCING HOUSES.— How to build and manage. 



CHAPTER XIV. HOT FORCING He U ses. -simple, sensible structures, 

 successfully managed : cost, construction, etc. 



CHAPTER XV. EARLY PLANTS FOR THE HOME GARDEN.— Various 

 means and devices for evervbodv. 



CHAPTER XVI. DRAINAGE — Where needed, and how done. 



CHAPTER XVII. IRRIGATION.— Surface Soaking and Sub-Earth Flooding. 



CHAPTER XVIII. INSECTS AND OTHER FOES. -Their nays of sowing 

 mischief, and how to keep them in check. 



CHAPTER XIX. FUNGUS DISEASES OF PLANTS— How to preven: 

 cure them. 



CHAPTER XX. SEEDS AND SEED SOWING.— By machine and bv hand. 

 CHAPTER XXI. NOVELTIES. AND WHY WE TEST THEM. 

 CHAPTER XXII. SYSTEM AND ROTATION OF < HOPPING. 

 CHAPTER XXIII. WEEDS. AND HOW To MANAGE THEM. 

 CHAPTER XXIV. THINNING AN D TRANSPLANTING. 

 CHAPTER XXV. PROTECTION AGAINST DROUTH AND FROST. 

 CHAPTER XXVI. HIRED HELP.-Emplovment and treatment ot labor. 

 CHAPTER XXVII. MONTHLY MEMORANDA.— A Cronological Summary 

 of the vear's work. 



CHAPTER' XXVIII. CULTURAL DIRECTIONS - How the various crops 

 of our gardens are grown most easily and profitably. 



COPYRIGHTED BY Wil HSNRY MAULS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 



