. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. HERBS AND AROMATIC PLANTS. '33 in a pestle and mortar with a little salt. This is far superior to anything which can be obtained at the shops; and it should therefore always be grown in first-rate gardens. Chili vinegar is also made from them. The cherry capsicum is a very beautiful plant, and very useful to add to pickles. There is one fruit of this tribe of plants, the Solamun anthropophagorum (fig. 211), which is used by savages to promote the digestibility of human
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. HERBS AND AROMATIC PLANTS. '33 in a pestle and mortar with a little salt. This is far superior to anything which can be obtained at the shops; and it should therefore always be grown in first-rate gardens. Chili vinegar is also made from them. The cherry capsicum is a very beautiful plant, and very useful to add to pickles. There is one fruit of this tribe of plants, the Solamun anthropophagorum (fig. 211), which is used by savages to promote the digestibility of human flesh. I have often grown the Ginger plant {Zingiber officinale, fig. 212), but, as it is not a gaudy plant, somehow or other it is rarely kept till the second year. The root when dried is used for medicine and cookery, and when green is preserved with sugar. The stems are annual, and die down in autumn. For preserving, the roots are. Fig. 212.—Ginger Plant. Fig. 213.'—Tomato, J diam. Fig. 211.—Solanum anthropo- phagorum. preferable when not too woody or too strongly filled with the ginger principle : it has occurred to me, that it might be possible to grow it here, for that purpose, during the summer season. I have never tried it, but certainly shall on the first opportunity. In the fernery or cucumber-house it grows with the greatest facility, and puts forth an abundance of its creeping rhizomes, so that there would be no difficulty for any person to grow his own ginger. We are particular about our Tomatoes (Lycopersicum esculentum, fig. 213), which we grow in cold frames. They should be raised from seed in February, and planted in the cold frames as soon as room can be spared. A three-light frame will yield a large produce of fruit, which is far superior in flavour to that imported from abroad, or to. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrati
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