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the end of May, in hills or drills. Three or four seeds 

 to the hill. Or sow in sheltered seed-bed and transplant. 

 Thin seed-bed rows at the fourth leaf, to three 

 inches. Thin hills to one plant. 



Set out house-grown plants when frosts are past, 



after hardening. 



Transplant with 

 plenty of earth, at five 

 or six inches. 



Culture. Give clean 

 cultivation. Large fruits 

 may be grown by 

 pinching off all blos- 

 soms after the first, few 

 fruits have set, and by 

 cutting back the ends. 

 Support. It is well 

 to tie the plants to 

 stakes in the case of a 

 heavy crop. Earthing the stems is not so good. 



Pick at about twenty weeks from seed, until frost. 

 Cut the fruit with an inch of stem, and do not tear it 

 from the plant. If the hands are burnt while handling 

 Peppers, soothe with milk. 



Diseases. Anthracnose (pink and black) may be 

 partly controlled by Bordeaux. 



Fig. 98. Young Pepper plant, ready for 

 setting out-of-doors. 



PEPPERGRASS. See Cress. 



