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PEPPERS 



The large fruited, mild Tarleties 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 up to dry for winter use. 



CULTUKE. — Sow the seed >^ 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 plenty rotted manure plowed under. Set In rows 2 to 3 feet apart and 18 Inches apart In the rows. 

 A packet will produce about lUU plants, an ounce about 1500 plants; pound to transplant for an acre. Ready for use in 110 to 145 days. 



* 531 Maule's Neapolitan 



The Earliest of 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 

 areof srong growth, very stocky, and peppers are borne erect, matur- 

 ing 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 pep- 

 pers two weeks ahead of their neighbors, they must plant Neapolitan. 

 Our seed is carefully selected. 



Packet, 10 cents; half ounce, 25 cents; onnce, 40 cents; 

 quarter pound, $1.25; pound, $4.00; 5 pounds, $17.50, postpaid. 



537 TABASCO PEPPER. 



533 Maule's Improved Ruby King 



The Standard Home and Market Sort 



This pepper was iiitroduced to the American public more 

 than a decade ago, and it at once took a conspicuous piace and 

 became the leader of the sweet red sorts. It grows about 5 to 

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

 sweet and so mild it is often sliced for a salad; also fine for 

 stufRng. 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, and sweet, mild flavor. So prominent 

 are these desirable features the words "Maule's Improved" 

 are properly attached to the strain we furnish. Matures its 

 "large well shaped peppers in 130 days. 



Packet, 10 cents; hall ounce, 25 cents; ounce, 40 cents; 

 quarter pound, $1.25; pound, $4.00; 5 pounds, $17.50, postpaid. 



537 Tabasco 



The Hottest of All Small Peppers 



Pungent and strong; very prolific. It Is easily gathered as the fruit 

 does not adhere to the stem and grows almost erect on the branches. 

 This variety is used in manufacturing the well-known Tabasco Sauce. 

 It is tall growing, producing small, slender and very hot fruits in HC 

 days, which are splendid for family use, sauce and pickling. 



Packet, 10 cents; half ounce, 35 cents; ounce, 60 cents ; 

 Quarter pound, SI. 75; poiuid, S6.00, postpaid. | 



