26 GARDENING 



Red Cabbage a TAllemagne 



Wash, cut up, and drain a red cabbage ; put it into a 

 stewpan with a good-sized piece of butter, and fry it sHghtly 

 then add a cupful of good gravy, salt and pepper, a spoonful 

 of good brown vinegar, and stew gently till tender. 



CAPSICUMS 



These must be sown on a hot bed at the begin- 

 ning of April, or can be raised on a warm boiler 

 under handglasses, but then the sowing must not 

 take place till towards the end of May. The 

 young plants should be thinned to four inches 

 apart, when they have still their seed-leaves, and 

 plant in 4-inch pots, three in each, and keep in 

 a moderate heat, shaded from the noonday sun 

 and watered slightly with tepid water till they have 

 taken root. 



Air must be admitted freely to prevent their 

 being drawn, and as May advances they must be 

 gradually exposed to the sun by taking away the 

 glasses in the daytime and leaving them by degrees 

 open of an evening, then early in June they will be 

 ready to plant out two feet apart, screened from 

 the sun, and well watered till rooted, and the water- 

 ing should be continued in dry weather. The 

 blossom appears in July or early in August, when 

 the pods will be ready to gather for pickhng at the 

 end of August. When in flower they are very 

 ornamental and look well in a conservatory, and 

 are grown for both use and ornament : some are 

 red and some yellow. 



Sutton's Erect-fruiting is one of the best, being 



