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pods; with heart-shaped upright pods; with 

 round, heart-shaped, upright pods; and with 

 very large, roundish, upright pods. 



In the Angular-heart-lonued i<ind, with up- 

 right, angular, heart-shaped, furrowed and 

 wrinkled scarlet pods; with upright, angular, 

 heart-shaped, flat-topped, scarlet pods ; and 

 with upright, angular, bell-shaped scarlet pods. 



And in the Great Angular Pickling kind, 

 there are varieties w'nh upright, swelling, fleshy- 

 skinned, wrinkled red pods, flatted and angular 

 at top; and with hanging or pendulous pods. 



The Cherry-fruited variety has low spreading 

 branches, leaves in clusters, and round, smooth, 

 red, cherry-shaped fruit. 



And the Olive-shaped variety has an erect 

 branchy head, and olive-shaped fruit. 



The second species has much resemblance to 

 the annual kind, and seems to be the connect- 

 ing link between the herbaceous and shrubby 

 sorts ; the stem is perennial, a span in height, 

 and somewhat branching; the fruit, in propor- 

 tion to the plant, is very large, being almost as 

 biff as an apple, but diflirring in shape; it is 

 solitary and erect, from an inch and half to two 

 inches long, swelling and wrinkled, flatted and 

 angular at top. 



The third difl'ers but little from the fourth; 

 the stem is more tender, more shrubby, and 

 not roughish; the berries are very small, red, 

 of an ovate form, and of the size of cur- 

 rants; the branches are divaricated, not spread- 

 ing out at a right angle with the stem. It is a 

 native of the West Indies. 



It is gathered when ripe; and, after being dried 

 and pounded, constitutes Cayan Pepper. 



The fourth species has the stem three feet 

 high and rugged ; branches diffused, frequently 

 scandent; the leaves are lanceolate, quite entire, 

 waved, small, smooth, petioled, alternate, or 

 scattered; the flowers are axillary, small, white, 

 Jive- or six-cleft : the fruit is at first green, but, 

 when ripe, golden- or saffron-coloured, crooked, 

 and shaped like a horn, an inch long, and 

 usually solitary. 



Culture. — They are all capable of being easily 

 raised from seed on a hotbed in the early spring 

 months, which, after it has been prepared, should 

 have the glasses put on, and five or six inches 

 depth of rich light earth laid over the sur- 

 face ; the seed should, then either be sown over 

 it in small drills, or in pots plunged in the 

 mould, in the first mode covering it in about 

 A quarter o*' an inch deep : when the plants ap- 

 pear air should be given daily by tilting up the 

 lights, as well as frequent moderate waterings ; 

 and when two or three inches high, and they 

 have three or four leaves, it is of advantage to 



prick a quantity of them out upon another hot- 

 bed, at from four to six inches distance, giving 

 water and shade occasionally till rooted; after 

 which air should be freely admitted every fine 

 day, and moderate waterings two or three times 

 a week, hardening the plants gradually to the 

 full air, into which they should be removed the 

 beginning of June, with a ball of earth to each- 

 root, placing them in different parts of the 

 flower-borders, either in the full ground or in 

 pots, watering them in dry weather till thcv 

 have taken good root. Such as are intended to 

 produce fruit for pickling should be planted out 

 in a rich warm bord^-r, or other place, in the 

 kitchen-garden, in rows a foot and a half or- 

 two feet distant, and at about fifteen inches 

 distant in the rows, water being given as before. 



The shrubby sorts, after being raised from 

 seeds, as above, should be pricked out singly in 

 small pots, and plunged into another hotbed, 

 under frames and glasses, air and water being 

 given; and when they are considerably advanced 

 in growth, removed, with balls to their roots, 

 into larger pots, &c. plunging them in a bed of 

 moderate warmth under a deep frame, where 

 they may remain to have occasional shelter till 

 autumn; then they must be taken in their pots 

 to the stove, where the fruit has a fine appear- 

 ance in the winter. 



The annual kinds are considered not only as 

 plants of ornament, from their flowers ; but the 

 beauty of the ripe fruit, which, from being 

 numerous, and of various forms, sizes, posi- 

 tions of growth, and colours, blended with the 

 green leaves and the white flowers, have a fine 

 effect in the latter part of summer, either in the 

 borders and clumps ii-i open places, or in pots in 

 fore-courts and other compartments about the 

 house. 



For useful purposes the young or half-grown 

 fruit is esteemed as a fine pickle; all the sorts may 

 be used for this purpose, but the great angular- 

 podded kind, or Bell Pepper, should be preferred. 



The shrubby sorts, as just observed, have a fine 

 effect in the autumn and winter in the stove,, 

 from their ripe fruit, which often remains on 

 the plants till the approach of spring. 



CARAWAY. See Carus. 



CAliDAMOMUM. SccAmomum. 



CARDINAL-FLOWER. See Lobelia. 



CARDOON. See Cynara. 



CARICA, a genus comprising plants of the 

 curious exotic hothouse kind. 1 he Papaw Tree. 



It belongs to the class and order Dioecia De- 

 candria, or rather Polijgamia, and ranks in the 

 natural order of TricocccB. 



The characters of which are: that in the male 

 the calyx is scarce manifest^ it has, however. 



