SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING 

 shipments from the South disturbing the market, 

 especially as regards the early crop) will average 

 about one dollar per bushel. 



PEPPERS (Capsicum annuum) are usually sown 

 under glass about April 1st, and should not be 

 transplanted to the open ground until the weather 

 is warm and settled say about June 1st, in this 

 locality. They are a family of plants exhibiting 

 very remarkable diversities in shape, size and 

 colour, as well as in the more or less pungent 

 taste by which they are characterized; some 

 changing, as they ripen, from the green colour 

 of the young pod to various brilliant shades of 

 red, and others to yellow and orange tints of like 

 intensity thus becoming in the highest degree 

 ornamental and interesting, but of course not any 

 more valuable to carry to market. 



All Peppers require a warm, mellow soil, and 

 heavy manuring applied either before or during 

 growth. The rows may be set eighteen inches 

 apart, and the plants a foot apart in the rows. 



Of certain sorts, the pickle factories use large 

 quantities, which are grown at very small prices 

 on contracts; but our market gardeners raise 

 peppers only in very small lots; merely enough to 



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