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Tabasco Pepper. 



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 Spanish MonstrouSo 



Golden Dawn Mango. This sweet pepper 

 attracted much attention for the last few 

 years, and was admired by all who saw it. 

 We beheve it to be all the originator claims 

 for it. In shape and size it resembles the Bell. 

 Color, a bright waxy golden yellow; very 

 brilliant and handsome. Single plants ripen 

 from twelve to twenty-four fruits, making 

 them productive and profitable. 



Coral Gem Bouquet, One of the finest 

 of the small sized varieties. Beautiful bright 

 red pods so thickly set as to give it the ap- 

 pearance of a bouquet of corals. 



Bell or Bull Nose. Is a large oblong 

 variety which is not sweet or mild, as thought 

 by some people. The seeds are very hot. 

 Used for pickling. 



Long Red Cayenne. Is very hot and 

 pungent. Cultivated here and used for pep- 

 per sauce and seasoning purposes. There are 

 two varieties, one is long and straight, and 

 the other like shown in cut, which is the only 

 kind we keep. 



Red Cherry. A small roundish variety^ 

 very hot and productive. 



Bird Eye. Small as the name indicates. 

 It is very hot and used principally for pepper 

 vinegar. 



POTATOES. 



Po3iME DE Terre (Fr.), Kartoffel (Ger.) 



Bliss Early Triumph or Improved Bermuda, 



Early Rose. 



Breeze's Peerless or Boston. 



Extra Early Vermont. 



Beauty of Hebron. 



White Elephant. 



Green Mountain. 



Rural New Yorker No. 

 Early Ohio. 

 Burhanks. 

 Early Goodrich. 

 Jackson White. 

 Carman No. 1. 

 White Star. 



CULTURE— The above varieties were tried on the grounds of the Louisiana Experiment 

 Station at Calhoun, La., and Audubon Park, New Orleans, among 150 different kinds tested 

 they gave about the best results, both in yield and quality. Potatoes thrive and produce best 

 in a light, dry but rich soil. Well decomposed stable manure is the best, but if not to be had, 

 cotton seed meal, raw bone meal or any other fertilizer should be used to make the ground 

 richxcnough. If the ground was planted the fall previous with Cow Peas, which were plowed 

 under, it will be in good condition for potatoes. Good sized tubers should be selected for 

 planting, which can be cut in pieces not too small, each piece orght to contain at least three 

 eyes. Plant in drills from two to three feet apart, according to the space and how to be cul- 

 tivated afterwards. Field culture, two and a half to three feet apart; for garden, two feet 

 will answer. We plant potatoes here from end of December to end of March, but the surest 

 time is about the first of February. If planted earlier they should be planted deeper than if 

 planted late, and hilled up as they grow. If potatoes are planted shallow and not hilled up 

 soon, they will suffer more, if caught by late frost, than if planted deep and not hilled up 

 well. Early potatoes have not the same value here as in the North, as the time of planting 

 is so long, and very often the first planting gets cut down by a frost, and a late planting, 

 which may just be peeping through the ground, will escape and produce in advance of the first 

 planted. A fair crop of potatoes can be raised here if planted in August; if the autumn is 



Don't Forget that we Handle Plants of all Descriptions. 



