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very ornamental, its colour a deep crimson. Red 

 Cherry and Red Giant are also very fine. Of the 

 yellow variety Golden Dav/n and Prince of Wales 

 are the best. 



RECIPE 

 To Pickle Capsicums 



The capsicums should be put into a jar, and covered 

 with boiling vinegar, allowing a good teaspoonful of salt and 

 half an ounce of powdered mace to every quart of vinegar. 

 When cold, tie dov/n closely with a bladder. They will be 

 ready to use in five or six weeks. (Cassell.) 



CARDOONS, or SPANISH ARTICHOKE 



These are natives of Candia, and require a light, 

 rich, moist, stcmty soil, dug deep and well pulverised. 



The seed should be sown at the end of April 

 for an early crop, and a later one in June. Trenches 

 should be made for it the same as for celery, and the 

 seed arranged in groups of intervals of fifteen inches 

 in the rows, and well supplied with water. When 

 about a month old, the seedlings should be thinned 

 out to four inches apart ; when advanced enough to 

 be planted out, they must then be taken up care- 

 fully, and the long straggling leaves removed. When 

 the plants are fully grown, w^hich will be in August 

 for the first sowing, and in October for the second, 

 the leaves must be drawn together and surrounded 

 with hay or straw bands to blanch them, and they 

 must be earthed up like celery, which must be done 

 in dry weather. It takes about ten weeks to blanch 

 them. In severe weather litter should be thrown 



