SEED GROWERS 
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CuLture. The pods of the pepper are used in sauces, salads, soups 
or as a seasoning and the large mild varieties called mangoes are eaten 
from the hand or variously stuffed and prepared with cabbage, tomatoes 
or meat. The pods of green peppers are green until in ripening they 
turn red or yellow, according to the variety. Start pepper in hotbeds, 
maintaining a temperature of 70 degrees and in other ways treat like a 
tomato. Set out-of-doors after frosts in 30-inch rows, giving each plant 
18 inches in a row. One ounce of seed gives 2,000 plants and one-quarter 
pound plants an acre. Number of days given is from setting plants to 
ripe fruit. 
ANAHEIM CHILI 80 Days 
Plant 2 feet high, medium light green and medium heavy growth. Fruit 
1 x 7 inches average, bright red from a deep green, slim, tapered to a 
point. Quite productive and medium hot in flavor. Largest of the milder 
chilis. Used as an all purpose type. 
BANANA OR LONG HOT YELLOW 70 Days 
Plant 2% feet high, medium light green, upright and fairly bushy growth. 
Fruits long, slim, 1/2 x 6 to 7 inches, ranging in color from a deep yellow 
to a bright orange to a bright red as they ripen, and tapering to a point. 
Very prolific, early, quite thick walled for the type and hot in flavor. 
SWEET BANANA 65 Days 
Plant 20 to 24 inches tall, upright, dark green foliage, heavy. Fruit 6% 
to 7% inches long x 1% inches. Sweet, medium flesh wall light yellow turn- 
ing to bright‘ red at maturity. 
BELL OR BULL NOSE, HOT 60 Days 
The earliest of the “bell” type peppers. The ribs are quite pungent, while 
the rest of the fruit is mild. The medium sized square fruits are deep 
green when immature and scarlet when ripe. 
BELL OR BULL NOSE, SWEET 60 Days 
Plant 2% feet high, medium light green, upright, strong growing, bushy. 
Fruits 3 x 4 inches, squared, usually four lobes, inverted bell shape; flesh 
quite thick, mild in flavor and is a good garden strain for salads and 
stuffing. 
CALIFORNIA WONDER 76 Days 
Plant 21%4 feet high, medium light green, making a strong, upright growth. 
Fruits are iarge, 34% to 4 x 5 inches, squared, usually four lobes, very 
thick walled, sweet and mild in flavor. From a deep green to a bright 
red in color. 
CALWONDER EARLY 69 Days 
Fruits 3 and 4-lobed, upright, very attractive. Smooth, uniform, deep 
green changing to bright crimson at maturity; thick, sweet and mild. Packs 
well because of uniformity. Length about 4 inches; diameter at stem 3%4 
inches. 
LONG SLIM CAYENNE 70 Days 
Same as Mammoth Long Cayenne except in size; % inch in diameter, 
4 to 5 inches long. 
MAMMOTH LONG CAYENNE 70 Days 
A long, slim, pointed pod, bright red in color when ripe, and extremely 
strong and pungent. Size 34 to 1 inch in diameter, 5 to 6 inches long. 
SMALL OR SHORT CAYENNE 70 Days 
Same as Mammoth’ Long Cayenne except in size; 4 inch in diameter, 
1 to 1% inches long. 
CHINESE GIANT 80 Days 
Plant 2% to 3 feet high, medium light green, strong, bushy growth. Fruit 
is large, 4 x 5 inches, squared, usually four lobes, deep green to a bright 
red color. Quite productive with a good thickness of side wall. Sweet 
and mild in flavor and used for a stuffing type. 
