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The large truited, mild varieties are largely used as salads, or stuffed with meat or other 

 ingredients and baked or stewed, or sliced and fried as eggplants. The hot and pungent sorts 

 are largely used for flavoring. The hot peppers may be strung on thread or the whole plant 

 hung u^p to dry for winter use. 

 Culture. — Sow the seed y^ Inch deep in hot bed, greenhouse or warm window, in March or April. After all danger of frost, set out in open 



ground. A warm, moist soil is best, with plentv rotted manure plowed under. Set in rows 2 to 3 feet apart and 18 inches apart in the rows. 



A packet will produce about lUO plants, an ounce abDut 1-500 plants; % pound to transplant for an acre. Keady for use in 110 to 14U days. 



PEPPERS 



551 Maule's Neapolitan 



The Earliest for all Sweet Peppers by Two Weeks 



Neapolitan proves itself to be two weeks earlier than any 

 other large, sweet, mild pepper. A wonderful bearer, single 

 plants often yield 30 to 40 peppers, and continues loaded with 

 fruit right up to frost. Plants are of strong growth, very 

 stocky, and peppers are borne erect, maturing its good size 

 peppers in 110 days. Flesh is very thick and fruit is pale 

 green turning to a brilliant red color. If our customers want 

 peppers fi'om one to two weeks ahead of their neighbors, 

 they must plant Neapolitan. Our seed is carefully selected. 

 Packet, 10 cents; half ounce, 30 cents; onnce, 50 cents; 

 quarter pound, $1.25; pound, $4.50, postpaid. 



537 Tobasco 



The Hottest of All Small Peppers 



Pungent and strong; very prolific. It is easily gathered, 

 as the fruit does not adhere to the stem aud grows almost 

 erect on the branches. This variety is used in manufactur- 

 ing the well-known Tobasco Sauce. It is tall growing, pro- 

 ducing small, slender and very hot fruits iu 140 days, which 

 are splendid for family use. Used for sauce aud pickling. 



Packet, 10 cents; lialf ounce. 3.5 cents; onnce, 65 cents; 

 quarter pound, SI. 75, postpaid. 



515 Maule's Improved Ruby King 



The Standard Home and Market Sort 



This pepper was introduced to the American public more 

 than a decade ago, aud it at once took conspicuous place aud 

 became the leader of tha sweet red sorts. It grows about 

 5 to 6 inches long by 3 to 4 inches in diameter ; flesh is very 

 thick, sweet aud so mild it is often sliced for a salad; also fine 

 for stuffing. We have furnished this seed to tens of thousands 

 of gardeners with the most satisfactory results, and our strain 

 of this splendid stock is now noted for perfection of form, 

 large size, brilliancy of color, aud sweet, mild flavor. So 

 prominent are these desirable features the words "Maule's 

 Improved" are properly attached to the strain we furuish. 

 Matures its large well shaped peppers in 130 days. 



Packet, 10 cents; half ounce, 35 cents; onnce, 65 cents; 

 quarter pound, $1.75; pornid, $6.00, postpaid. 



5k6 Sweet Mountain or Mammoth 



Excellent Large Sweet Pepper for Stuffing 

 Somewhat larger and milder in flavor than Bull Nose pepper. 1(; 

 color is deep green, turning to red. and it is productive and desirable 

 Matures large size peppers in 130 days. 



Packet, 10 cents; half ounce, 30 cents; ounce, 55 cents; 

 quarter poiuid, $1.33; pound, $5.00, postpaid. 



