612 MISCELLANEOUS VEGETABLES. 



inch and a half in diameter ; skin, or flesh, quite 

 thin, and exceedingly piquant. 



Stalk about two feet high ; foliage of medium 

 size, blistered and wrinkled ; flowers an inch in 

 diameter, white. 



The variety yields abundantly, but attains its 

 greatest perfection when started in a hot-bed. 

 The ripe pods, dried and pulverized as directed 

 for Cayenne Pepper, make an excellent substitute 

 for that article. 



The plants, with ripe fruit, are very ornamental. 



Long Yel- Pods pendent, long, and tapering, three to four 

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inches in length, and about an inch in their great- 

 est diameter. At maturity they assume a lively, rich, glossy 

 yellow, and the plants are then showy and ornamental. 



Stem two feet and upwards in height, slightly colored with 

 purple at the intersection of the branches and insertion of 

 the leaf-stems ; leaves of medium size, smaller and paler 

 than those of the Long Red ; flowers white, nearly an inch 

 in diameter. Like the last named, it is very piquant. It 

 is also late, and, to obtain the variety in perfection, the seed 

 should be started in a hot-bed in April. 



Purple or Fruit erect, on long stems, bluntly cone- 

 BLACK PODDED, shaped, two inches and a half in length, and a 

 half or three fourths of an inch in diameter at the broadest 

 part. Before maturity the skin is green, or reddish-green, 

 clouded or stained with black or purplish-brown ; but, when 

 ripe, changes to rich, deep, indigo-blue. 



Plant two feet or upwards in height, more erect and less 

 branched than other varieties, and much stained with pur- 

 ple at the intersection of the branches and at the insertion of 

 the leaf-stems ; leaves of medium size, or small, long, and 



