TRY OUR PENNSYLVANIA STATE CERTIFIED PEPPER SEED 
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PEPPER 
Native of South America. One ounce of seed should produce over a thousand plants in the 
greenhouse or coldframe. One-half pound of seed sown in the field should provide ample plants 
for 1 acre. Seed breaks ground in 11 days. One inch high in 13 days under most favorable cir¬ 
cumstances in greenhouse. 
All of Landreths’ peppers are grown in the Eastern United States and are giving much better results 
than European peppers as to early maturity, trueness to type, and productiveness. No garden vegetable 
or fruit has so increased in demand in recent years as peppers; first, due to enormous use by commercial 
canners who pack peppers whole, and use them in making various relishes, and condiments; second, to its 
increased uses every day in the kitchen for making sauces, gravies and stuffing. Our large, thick-fleshed, 
hollow-crowned, certified pepper varieties are ideal for stuffing. Try them. 
Owing to the fact that we have had so many of our customers asking us to supply them with seed for 
green peppers, we wish to state, that all peppers are green when young or immature. When peppers mature 
or ripen, they turn red in most cases, in some yellow, and still others variegated green, yellow and red. 
Certified California Wonder 
PENNSYLVANIA STATE 
PEPPER SEED CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 
PEPPER STOCK SEED 
Before any variety can even be entered for certification in Pennsylvania, stock seed from carefully 
selected and staked plants must be saved the year previous to certification. D. Landreth Seed Co. goes 
further than that, as our stock seed is saved from carefully staked plants at least two years previous to 
certification, and seed from those staked plants proved by test a year in advance of certification. Only the 
very best tested strains are used for growing our fields for certification. 
FIELD INSPECTIONS 
Advanced Plant Pathologist K. W. Lauer, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, 
Harrisburg, Pa., and Dr. Warren Mack, of Penn State College, accompanied by Hal Mills, Plant Breeder 
for D. Landreth Seed Co., inspect all our pepper fields before the first pickings are made. At least one 
more field inspection is necessary and sometimes one or two after that before these two inspectors are satis¬ 
fied that the fields are up to the high standards required. 
During these inspections the fields are rated for vigor, and the plants and fruits are carefully e.xamined 
for disease and trueness to type, whole fields being discarded if they do not meet the very strict requirements. 
INSPECTION OF EQUIPMENT 
The seed saving machines are inspected, and the processes of washing and drying of the seed are checked. 
GERMINATION TESTS 
Samples of certified pepper seed are taken by Inspector Lauer direct from the bagged stocks. These 
are tested for germination at Harrisburg and certificates issued to our Company. 
CERTIFICATION STICKERS 
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture issues yellow certification stickers which we paste on 
each package of certified pepper seed. These stickers state that the pepper seed in the package was in¬ 
spected and certified by the Pennsylvania Department of Agricultiue. W’e guarantee the seed to be 
part of that inspected and passed in accordance with the Pennsylvania rules and regulations for the certifica¬ 
tion of pepper seed. 
