PEPPERS 
(10z. will produce 1000 plants) 
CULTURE—Pepper seed requires heat 
for germination. The seed should be sown 
early in hot beds or small boxes in the 
window, or may be sown in the open 
ground about the middle of spring. When 
two inches high set in rich soil two feet 
apart in rows two and one-half feet apart. 
Hoe often. The yield can be greatly in- 
creased by hoeing manure from the hen 
house into the soil about the plants when 
they are about six inches high. 
RUBY KING—A mild flavored pepper of 
large size, from four to six inches long by 
three and one-half to four inches thick; 
the plant is sturdy, bushy habit, and each 
produces from six to twelve large hand- 
some fruits; when ripe they are of a beau- 
tiful, bright ruby red color and always re- 
markably mild and pleasant. 
SMALL CHILI—A very short heavy-set | 
bush, almost a solid cluster of small pep- 
pers of 2 inches in length. 
LONG RED CAYENNE—A long, slender 
red pepper, very hot and pungent. 
BELL OR BULL NOSE—A very large 
and mild glossy red variety. 
CALIFORNIA WONDER—Resembles 
Chinese Giant in the large size, and 
“blocky” form of its fruit, but having an 
extremely thick, mild, sweet flesh, not pos- 
sessed by that variety. Fruit indistinctly 
four-lobed, upright, crimson, measuring 4% 
inches in length by 4 inches in diameter. 
Rather late in maturing. 
PIMIENTO—A very thick fleshed, heart- 
shaped, smooth, mild, crimson variety, 
much used for salads, fruit pendent; 3% 
inches long by 214 inches, greatest diam- 
eter; rather late in season. 

Pepper, Ruby King 

Pepper, Bell or Bull Nose 
Chinese Giant 
Monstrous New Pepper. Fully twice the 
size of Ruby King. 
This splendid new pepper has created 
quite a sensation among gardeners who 
have grown it for market. It is the earl- 
iest, largest and best of all the large red 
peppers grown—fully double the size of 
Ruby King, which has heretofore been the 
leading sort. Its enormous size, beautiful 
shining red color and mild flavor causes it 
to sell readily, and gardeners will find it 
ae most profitable sort that can be han- 
ed. 
PUMPKINS 

(2 Ibs. will 
plant 100 hills; 
3 to 4 Ibs. 
per acre.) 
CULTURE— 
The pumpkin 
does best on 
newly broken 
sod or prairie land, or on land formed by 
plowing under a crop of rye or wheat in 
the spring, but will do well on almost any 
soil. The seed is usually planted among 
corn in hills 8x8 feet. Plant any time dur- 
ing May. When the frost has killed the 
vines cut off the stems a few inches from 
the fruit and store in a dry place, using 
care not to bruise them in handling. 
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