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of leaves is often six to eight inches deep. 

 One peck will plant an acre, four feet apart 

 in four-foot rows. 



Soja Bean, or German Coffee Berry. 



SOJA BEAN, OR GERMAN COFFEE 



BEERY. — One of the most valuable forage 

 plants for pasturing- or feeding: green. The 

 vines are bushy and of vigorous, erect 

 habit. Fed in the green state, they afford 

 most nutritious forage. Sow broadcast at 

 the rate of one-half bushel to the acre, or 

 plant in drills 3% feet apart, and iy 2 feet 

 between the plants, dropping two 1 or three 

 beans in a hill. One gallon will sow one 

 acre, if drilled. 



JAPANESE MONG BEAN.— From that 

 mysterious and wonderful country, Japan, 

 we have procured a bean very similar in 

 general appearance and growth to the soy 

 bean. ' The bushes are upright but grow 

 larger and more sprangling than the soy 

 bean. The branches are not so coarse as 

 those of the soy .bean, which is greatly in 

 its favor as a hay plant. This bean is very 

 closely allied to our soy beans and may be 

 a great improvement. They have all the 

 general appearances of the soy bean except 

 in pods and seed. The pods are much 

 longer and the seed much smaller. They 

 do not mature seed quite so early, but may 

 after they become acclimated. This is one 

 advantage in their favor for sowing cow 

 peas, as most of the soy beans ripen before 

 the peas. This plant is a rank grower, a 

 great cropper of both hay and seed. This 

 is one of the greatest of our leguminous 

 plants. They almost equal the famous cow 

 pea. 



PEPPER. 



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Piment (Fr.), Spanischer Pfeffer (Ger.), Pimento (Sp.), Peperone (Ital.) 



CULTURE. — Peppers are tender and require to be raised in the hot bed. Seed should 

 be sown in January, and when large enough transplanted into the ground in rows from 

 one and a half to two feet apart, and a foot and a half in rows. There are more Peppers 

 raised here than in any other section of the country; the hot varieties are used for 

 seasoning and making pepper sauce, the mild varieties are highly esteemed for salad. 

 Care should be taken not to grow two different kinds close together, as they mix very 

 readily. 



RUBY KING.— (Sweet.) This variety 

 grows to a larger size than the Sweet Span- 

 ish or Monstrous, and is of different shape. 

 The fruit is from 5 to 6 inches long by 

 about 3 to 4 inches in diameter, and of 

 bright red color. It is remarkably mild and 

 pleasant in flavor, and can be sliced and 

 eaten as a salad the same as the Sweet 

 Spanish or Monstrous. 



COLUMBUS. — A large and popular vari- 

 ety of Sweet Pepper. It is mild and sweet 

 and used principally for salad. 



CHILI. — A small variety, from three- 

 fourths to an inch long. It is strong and 

 used for pepper sauce; very prolific. 



BIRD EYE. — Small as the name indi- 

 cates. It is very hot and used principally 

 for pepper vinegar. 



CORAL GEM BOUQUET.— One of the 



finest of the small sized varieties. ■ Beauti- 

 ful bright red pods so thickly set as to 

 give it the appearance of a bouquet of 

 corals. As a potted plant for florists it has 

 proved a most rapid selling article. 



Ruby King-. 



Our Fruit Trees are Specially Adapted to this Climate. 



