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COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA 
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NEW PEPPER GOLIATH (66 days) 
HEAVILY PRODUCTIVE—EARLY—FRUITS LARGE 
Fruits of mammoth size, averaging 5 inches in length 
Fully as early as 
Ruby King and very productive, some plants producing as 
high as 32 marketable peppers. The fruit is green at first 
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. 15c; 1 oz. 50c; % lb. $1.50; 
Ib. $6.00. / 
PEPPER EARLY CALWONDER (63 days) 
An early strain of California Wonder maturing a week 
to ten days ahead of regular stocks. Plant dwarf, vigorous, 
heavily productive. Fruits 3 to 4 lobed, upright, very at- 
tractive, smooth, uniform, deep green, changing to bright 
crimson at maturity. Thick, sweet and mild. Particularly 
desirable in areas of shorter season. Pkt. 10c; oz. 60c; Ib. 
$6.00. 
EARLY PIMENTO (65 days)—Fruit of the same shape and 
high quality as the regular Pimento and only a trifle smaller 
in size. The ripe peppers are of highly attractive dark crim- 
son color. Very heavily productive. Pkt. 10c; oz. 80c. 
GOLDEN KING (78 days)—The largest fruited bell shaped 
yellow colored pepper. Smooth, flesh sweet and mild. Pkt. 
10c; oz. 50c; 1b. $6.00. 
LARGE RED CHERRY (82 days)—Fruit a flattened globe, 
smooth 114 to 2 inches in diameter. Very hot. Pkt. 10c; oz. 
40c; Ib. $4.00. 
SMALL RED CHERRY (80 days)—Fruit small, the size of 
common cherry, red when ripe and very hot. Pkt. 10c; oz. 
40c; lb. $4.00. 
PAPRIKA PEPPER (70 days) 
Long grown in Hurope but very little known in the United States. 
It is a variety producing a heavy crop of long, tapered, deep red 
fruit at maturity with sweet flavor and slight pungency in ribs and 
seeds. In other words it is a pepper that is only slightly hot with 
pleasant flavor and for that reason desirable for the preparation of 
savory stews and gravies as well as for eating raw or pickled. Pkt, 
10c; 02. 80¢c. 

GOLIATH PEPPER makes large sturdy plants and should 
be allowed more space than common varieties. We plant 30 
inches apart each way. To get fruit of exceptionally large 
size grow on rich ground where no peppers were grown the 
year before and do not let your plants suffer for lack of 
moisture. 
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’ Barly 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. 
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 3x8 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 6 inches apart in the row. The following spring 
set out your roots in rows 4 feet apart and 3 feet apart in the rows. 
Rhubarb requires very rich soil. To get a full stand press the seeds 
into the ground firmly, cover the seed inch deep. 
SHOULD THE SEED STALKS BE CUT OUT—They should to 
encourage the 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. Barly in spring dig the roots 
and plant back in the field. 
VICTORIA—Choice strain with heavy deep red stalks. 
10c; %4 lb. 30c; 1 1b. $1.30; 10 Ibs. $11.00. 
McDONALD CRIMSON—Produces heavy, 
color from early spring till frost. Absolutely no green stalks. 
roots, 10 for $2.00, lighter roots 10 for $1.50, not prepaid. 
Pkt. 5c; 0z. 
long stalks of crimson 
Heavy 
