. Descriptive catalogue of a choice collection of vegetable, agricultural and flower seeds, gladiolus, lilies, and other summer flowering bulbs. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs. [Capsicum, Lix. PEPPEK. Piment, Fk. Spanischer Pfeffer, Ger. Pimiento, Sp.] 5 §0 25 $ 75 §3 00 Capsicum, or Pepper, is a tender annual, used as a hot, pungent seasoning for soups and meats, as well as for pickling, and is universally esteemed. Some of the varieties are mild and sweet. CuLTUKE.—Sow early, in a hotbed,'in the Xorthern and IVIiddle Stat
. Descriptive catalogue of a choice collection of vegetable, agricultural and flower seeds, gladiolus, lilies, and other summer flowering bulbs. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs. [Capsicum, Lix. PEPPEK. Piment, Fk. Spanischer Pfeffer, Ger. Pimiento, Sp.] 5 §0 25 $ 75 §3 00 Capsicum, or Pepper, is a tender annual, used as a hot, pungent seasoning for soups and meats, as well as for pickling, and is universally esteemed. Some of the varieties are mild and sweet. CuLTUKE.—Sow early, in a hotbed,'in the Xorthern and IVIiddle States, or in the open ground, in a seed-bed, about the middle of Spring, in a light, warm soil. Transplant when three inches high, one foot apart, in eighteen-inch drills, and earth up a little at one or two hoeings. Guano, hen- dung, x>r any other bird manure, applied upon the surface, and hoed in when the plants are about six inches high, will be found to increase the product. Pkt. Oz. Lb. Lb. Large Bell, or Bull Nose.—Pods or finiit large, slightly tapering, and generally terminates in four obtuse, cone-like points. It is early, sweet and pleasant to the taste, less acrid or pungent than most other sorts. It is much esteemed for pickling, for its mildness as well as for its thick, fleshy, tender rind, ---------- Cayenne (true.)—The pods of this variety are quite smaU, cone-shaped, coral red when ripe, intensely acrid, and furnish the Cayenne Pepper of commerce. It is a tropical plant, and does not succeed well in open culture in the Xorthern States. Both ripe and green pods are used as pickles, also for making pepper-sauce, ------- Clierry Red.—A small, smooth, round variety, of dwarf growth. Fruit at maturity of a deep rich, glossy scarlet color, remarkable for its in- tense piquancy. When in perfection, the plants are verj- ornamental, the glossy coral red of the numerous pod^ presenting a fine contrast with the deep green foliage surrounding them. ----- Chili.
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