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Title: 1915 the Maule seed book
Identifier: 1915mauleseedboo1915wmhe (find matches)
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Wm. Henry Maule (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Maule
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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WM. HENRY MAULE, Inc., PHILADELPHIA, PA. Vegetable Seeds—33 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 bills 2x8 cessional plantings until nearly mid-sununer. Use one quart lor (jUU 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. 20S Maule *s Colossal Early Sugar Corn For the Home Garden or Market The Finest Sugar Corn in Existence The first real liA'al of the Shoe Peg or Country Gentleman, as large as Stowell's EvergTeen, and of delicious flavor. Frequently matures fine large ears ten weeks from planting. Maule's tJolossal has three principal points that especially recommend it: First—Earliness. It has matured a crop in 58 to 62 days under extraordinary circumstances, but can gen- erally be depended upon to produce ears of marketable size within 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 length, 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 eais are generally found on every stalk; it grows from 6 to 7 feet tali, which furnishes a most desirable fodder. Mr. C. S. Clark, of Ohio, oue of the largest growers of sweet corn in America has this to say : "Your Colossal Sweet Corn planted Way 14th, 1910, laid in the cold gi-ound one month before it came np. This was due to the fact that May and the fore part of last June hold the record as the coldest months ever known in Ohio at this sea- son of the year, louring 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 sweet corn in North- ern Ohio where hundreds of acres of all sorts are grown. "This is a fact, that it is the best Held of sweet corn today in all this section. Therefore, we have a right to be more than pleased with this corn. The ears are nearly as large as stow- ell's, and it is sweet and tender and of line quality, with fodder just as large and more ears per stalk on the averaije. "Market gardeners, canuers, hotels and the sweet corn grow- ers will appreciate having this variety to come in just after the early sorts are gone and before the late sorts are ready. It is a very strong grower, and we 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, making it the most convenient corn to pick otT the stalk we ever saw. We had a crop grown in Connecticut by Mr. Willard, former President of the American Seed Trade Associa- tion. In writing to us 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 very 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 sokl as quickly as before. With his second planting peo- ple would not take good Stowell's or Country Gen- tleman until they found him sold out of Colossal. This is only one case; there were hundreds similar, as this excellent Sugar Corn has become very popular among growers and canners everywhere. It does equal- ly as well for the amateur. Our supply of this variety is limited to only a few thousand bushels; therefore on account of the heavy demand, advise early orders. Packet, 10 cents; 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. 87.50.
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MAULE'S COLOSSAL EARLY SUGAR CORN.

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