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¬ 
tion. 
FIELD INSPECTIONS 
Advanced Plant Pathologist K. W. Lauer, of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa., accom¬ 
panied 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 CERTI¬ 
FIED PEPPER SEED AND BE MORE 
THAN SATISFIED 
LANDRETHS’ PENNSYLVANIA CERTIFIED PEPPER 
SEED IS THE BEST OBTAINABLE 
Look for this Yellow Sticker and Blue Box 
when you buy Landreths’ Pennsylvania Certified 
Pepper Seed. 
LANDRETHS’ PENNSYLVANIA CERTIFIED PEPPER 
SEED IS COLORED GREEN 
I API-89-5M-10-36 
Pennsylvania Certified 
Pepper Seed 
Tills certifies tliat the 
Iiepper seed in this pack¬ 
age was inspected and 
ceitified by the Penn¬ 
sylvania DeparUnent of 
Agriculture. The seeds- 
Inian guarantees this seed 
;to be part of t!,at in¬ 
spected and passed in 
accordance with the 
Pennsylvania rules and 
regulations for the cer¬ 
tification of pepper seed. 
Bureau of Plant Industry 
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 
