PENNSYLVANIA STATE PEPPER 
SEED CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 
PEPPER STOCK SEED 
Before any variety can even be entered for certification in Pennsyl¬ 
vania, 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 shown by the previous pages, as our stock seed is saved from care¬ 
fully 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 certifica- 
tlon - FIELD INSPECTIONS 
Advanced Plant Pathologist K. W. Lauer, of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, Department of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa., accompanied by 
Dr. Warren Mack, of Penn State College, and 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 satisfied 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 examined 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 seed are taken by Inspector Lauer from bagged 
stocks, tested for germination at Harrisburg and certificates issued. 
CERTIFICATION STICKERS 
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture issues yellow certifica¬ 
tion stickers which we paste on each package of certified pepper seed. 
These stickers state that the pepper seed in the package was inspected and 
certified by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. We guarantee 
the seed to be part of that inspected and passed in accordance with the 
Pennsylvania rules and regulations for the certification of pepper seed. 
USE OUR PENNSYLVANIA STATE CERTIFIED PEPPER SEED 
AND BE MORE THAN SATISFIED 
One ounce of seed should produce over a thousand plants in the greenhouse 
or coldframes. 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 circumstances in greenhouse. 
Most all of Landreths 7 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. ( Please turn over page) 
