The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



just as well be grown in one's own hotbed or 

 house and make welcome gifts to the young house- 

 keeper or the city dweller who does not have the 

 advantage of a country garden to furnish condi- 

 ments and relishes. The little plants can be 

 grown in pots from the start or small plants in 

 the garden can be taken up and potted and will 

 hold their tiny scarlet fruit all winter, producing 

 more as the first is removed. For the sunny 

 kitchen or dining room window nothing is prettier 

 or more ornamental than a window box filled with 

 these little red peppers, parsley and endive. 



Cayenne peppers can be grown for the making 

 of pepper vinegar; the seeds are used for this, 

 being separated from the husk when dry and put 

 into quart bottles filled with white wine vinegar ; 

 in a few weeks the vinegar will be ready for use. 

 The hulls may be saved and put in cans of mixed 

 pickles, a few hulls adding a piquant hotness; 

 they may also be added to pickled onions and to 

 cauliflower. 



As peppers are extremely sensitive to frost 

 every effort should be made to bring them along 



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