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Show EARLIEST OF SWEET PEPPERS Plants Require Rather Light, Well Drained Soil, and They Must Be Kept Growing From Start. ; Perhaps the earliest variety is the Neapolitan If well grown plants are set out early they will produce fine fruit in June. The fruit first turns to a light yellow and then to a brilliant scarlet."'1 The Ruby King, the Bull' Nose, or Sweet; Bell are fine peppers; They are blunt, .nosed, round and about two or three inches long. The Ruby King is a little larger than the Bull Nose and Its flesh; is very mild and sweet. These plants grow about three feet high and are not easily blown down. Thelargest variety is the Chinese rsGian.j: The- flesh is thick and sweet 1 and can be eaten raw. - Peppers' require rather light, well drained soil, and they must be kept growing from the start. If the growth is checked by cold weather or lack of innictnro ttiov will nnr mflhiro Wfill J .Wheii. Ae plants show, two or three i leaves In seed bed transplant in small cans or flower pots, and again transplant trans-plant when" all danger, of . frost is passed ' and, in " fact, not until the . weather becomes quite warm. Place . a shovelfuTof well watered manure in : each hill. ?; ' l: |
