CAPSICUM, OR RED PEPPER 



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Large Bell Pepper or Capsicum 

 (| natural size). 



There is a sub-variety of it with yellow seed-vessels, veiy 



seldom met with in cultivation, 



and which, except in the colour 



of its seed-vessels, exactly re- 

 sembles the ordinary Cherry 



Pepper. 



Cranberry Pepper. A Chili 



Pepper with round, erect, very 



numerous fruits, smaller than in 



the Cherry Pepper, and hardly 



larger than big peas. They form 



compact bouquets, and have a 



very burning taste. This Pepper 



possesses the same qualities as 



the Chili Pepper, and can be used 



as a condiment or as a plant for 



ornament 



Large Bell Pepper or 



Capsicum. A rather thick-set 



plant, with large leaves of light 



green ; branches short and stiff ; 



flowers large, and often irregular in form ; seed-vessels blunt and 



squared at the ends, with four deep furrows and four corresponding 



prominent ridges along 

 the sides ; flesh rather 

 thick ; seeds few. This 

 Pepper is entirely free 

 from the acrid or burning 

 pungency which charac- 

 terises some other kinds. 

 The variety of it which 

 is most commonly grown 

 produces seed-vessels 

 about 2 in. in length and 

 the same in diameter. 

 This is a form that may 

 be eaten as a vegetable, 

 and a very pleasant ad- 

 dition it is, as the Italians 

 cook it. Of late years 

 this variety has been 

 partly superseded by the 

 Improved Bull-nose Cap- 

 sicum, described hereafter. 

 In the south of France 

 Improved Bull-nose Pepper. and in Spain a form is 



