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DE GIORGI BROTHERS CO 
NEW PEPPER GOLIATH (66 days) 
HEAVILY PRODUCTIVE—EARLY—FRUITS LARGE 
Fruits of mammoth size, averaging 5 inches in length 
and 3*4 inches in width at both ends. Fully as early as 
Ruby King and very productive, some plants producing as 
high as 32 marketable peppers. The fruit is green at first 
and later turns to a beautiful shade of scarlet. Flesh is thick 
and sweet and keeps in prime condition for a long time. 
Grow Goliath Peppers For Market 
We assure you that there will be no time when you will 
have to take unsold peppers back home. GOLIATH PEPPER 
will sell itself and you will not have enough to supply the 
demand. That is our experience. GOLIATH PEPPER is 
unlike all other peppers, it is a real wonder, it is immense, 
a great surprise. We grow GOLIATH PEPPER on our seed 
farm and many market gardeners from our city and Omaha 
went through our field of GOLIATH PEPPERS. Were they 
surprised by the sight? Judge yourself. One said: “This is 
the most wonderful and largest pepper I have ever seen.” 
Said another: “I have never seen so many big peppers on 
a plant,” Says a third: “DeGiorgi, you have a most wonder¬ 
ful pepper, something that will make money for all gardeners 
that will plant it.” 
GOLIATH PEPPER will give at least double the returns 
from an acre over other varieties, because it yields more 
than twice as heavy a crop and because it brings double the 
price common peppers do. 
So very valuable is GOLIATH PEPPER that many of 
our customers who have been growing it before are saving 
their own seed, as they do not want to take the chances of 
us having a crop failure. They know that if they should be 
unable to procure the seed of GOLIATH PEPPER it would 
mean a big loss to them. 
All gardeners that have seen our crop of Peppers for 
seed were surprised by the sight and all asked us to save 
some seed for them. We showed GOLIATH PEPPERS to 
the owner of the largest and finest grocery store in our city. 
He did not believe his eyes and when told we grew those 
peppers right here on our farm he showed signs that he did 
not believe us. “No,” says he, “these peppers were shipped to 
you from somewhere, do not tell me that peppers like that 
can be grown here in Iowa.” Well, we showed him our field 
and he now believes. We say about our GOLIATH PEPPER: 
At a single picking you will get from a single plant 10 or 
more most beautiful and largest peppers you have ever seen. 
The peppers are so large that it is impossible to put more 
than 20 peppers in a market basket of one-third bushel ca¬ 
pacity. It beats Chinese Giant or any other pepper in size, 
It is sweet as an apple, thick meated and VERY EARLY. 
Place your order NOW. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 45c; % lb. $1.00; 
lb. $4.00; 10 lbs. $35.00. 
HOT TOMATO OR SQUASH tomato shaped fruit, 
glossy red, flesh thick, somewhat hot. Heavily productive. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 30c; 1 lb. $3.00. 
FINGER OR LONG HOT (70 days)—Heavily productive hot 
pepper. Fruit red, 6 inches long, iy 2 in. thick at the stem 
end. Pkt. 10c; oz. 40c; lb. $3.00. 
MAGNUM DCLCE (70 days)—Fruits three lobed, slightly tap¬ 
ering, reaching a size of 7 inches long by 4 inches through. 
Flesh thick, sweet and mild, color bright crimson at matur¬ 
ity. Pkt. 10c; oz. 45c; lb. $3.80. 
GOLDEN KING (78 days)—The largest fruited bell shaped 
yellow colored pepper. Smooth, flesh sweet and mild. Pkt. 
10c; oz. 40c; lb. $4.00. 
LARGE RED CHERRY (82 days)—Fruit a flattened globe, 
smooth 1% to 2 inches in diameter. Very hot. Pkt. 10c; oz. 
30c; lb. $3.00. 
S3IALL RED CHERRY (80 days)—Fruit small, the size of 
common cherry, red when ripe and very hot. Pkt. 10c; oz. 
30c; lb. $3.00. 
A letter from a Minnesota customer: 
Mast tell you of the luck I bad with the Giant Neapolitan and 
Goliath peppers this last season. They were the largest and finest 
ever grown here in the last 10 years anyway, so that means for all 
time. Of the very largest 12 filled a bushel basket level full. There 
was no trouble selling the large peppers at 40 cents per dozen and 
the largest ones for 10 cents each. 
TO DO BETTER 
To be more prosperous, grade better. It rarely pays to market 
second grade produce. It Is very Important that you start right by 
planting and growing only the best and finest new strains of vege¬ 
tables. We are offering many such new and exceptionally good 
strains. 
GOLIATH PEPPER makes large sturdy plants and should 
be allowed more space than common varieties. We plant 30 
inches apart each way. If in addition to giving this variety 
ample room to develop water in plenty be supplied, it will 
produce bigger peppers than shown in our illustration. 
WHICH IS THE BEST PEPPER? 
The best paying large sweet bell pepper is still the variety 
Goliath. It does well in every part of the country, especially so in 
Florida. Harris’ Early Giant is another real good early pepper but 
we do not recommend it for the South where it proved to be a shy 
cropper. Much is heard about Ozark Giant and Calwonder pepper. 
Both these varieties are high class and every market gardener should 
give these two peppers a trial. The most popular hot pepper is the 
variety Improved Thick Long Red. 
BULL NOSE PEPPER—Our strain produces fruit with flesh only 
fairly hot, a strain that is not easy to get. 
CULTURE—1 oz. of seed will produce about 2,000 plants; 6 ozs. 
plants an acre. The culture of the peppers is similar to Egg Plant. 
Have the plants in hot beds 3x3 inches and in the field in rows 3 
feet apart and 18 inches apart in the rows. Pepper requires very 
rich soil in order to develop fruit of large size. 
Rhubarb 
CULTURE—1 oz. for 100 feet of row. Sow in rows 18 inches 
apart and thin to 0 inches apart in the row. The following spring 
set out your roots in rows 4 feet apart and 8 feet apart in the rows. 
Rhubarb requires very rich soil. 
SHOULD THE SEED STALKS BE CUT OUT—They should to 
encourage tlie leaf growth and the development of the roots. 
FORCING RHUBARB—This is profitable. If you have room 
under benches, plant the rhubarb. No attention necessary except 
watering. Only heavy roots full of life are suited for forcing. Dig 
up in the fall, pile up, cover lightly with soil and allow to freeze 
before planting under the benches. Early in spring dig the roots 
and plant back in the field. 
VICTORIA—Choice strain with heavy deep red stalks. Pkt. 5c; oz. 
10c; 14 lb. 25c; 1 lb. $1.00; 10 lbs. $8.00. 
RHUBARB ROOTS—Each 20c, postpaid. In lots of 25 or over, heavy 
roots $5.00 per 100; light roots $2.00 per 100, not prepaid. 
We sell half pounds at pound rate, 6 pounds or over at 10 pound 
rate, 8S pound* or over at 100 pound rate. 
