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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Golden Upright Capsicum. A small and early variety, with 

 upright square pods of beautiful yellow. 



The names of Bird's-beak Pepper and Mad Pepper are some- 

 times given to the seed-vessels of the smallest varieties of Capsicum 

 annuum, which are remarkably hot to the taste ; but, properly 

 speaking, these names should be applied to the seed-vessels of 

 Capsicum frutescens, which only grows well in tropical climates 



CARAWAY 



Carum Carvi, L. Umbelliferce 



French, Carvi, Cumin des pres. German, Feld-Kiimmel. Dutch, Karvij. Danishj 

 Kommen. Italian, Carvi. Spanish, Alcaravea. Portuguese, Alcaravia. 



Native of Europe. Annual or biennial. Root as thick as 

 the thumb, long, yellowish, with white compact flesh, which has 



a slight carrot flavour ; 

 leaves chiefly radical, 

 numerous, composed of 

 opposite whorled leaflets ; 

 leaf-stalk channelled, 

 hollow and undulated ; 

 stem straight, I to 2 ft. 

 high, branching, angular, 

 and smooth ; flowers small, 

 white, in umbels ; seeds 

 oblong, rather curved, 

 marked with five furrows, 

 aromatic, and of a light 

 brown colour. Their 

 germinating power lasts 

 for three years. 



CULTURE. The seeds 

 are often gathered in the 

 meadows, where the plant 



^11^=^%^--^ " grows naturally. When 



Caraway. the plant is cultivated, the 



seed is sown in drills, in 



May or June. As soon as the seedlings are pretty strong, they 

 are thinned out, and nothing further is required, except to keep 

 the ground free from weeds, until the crop is gathered in July 

 of the year after that in which the seed was sown. By sowing 

 some of the seed as soon as it is ripe, plants may be raised which 

 will run to seed in the summer of the following year, and a month 

 or two may thus be saved in the cultivation of the crop, as 

 compared with the ordinary mode of sowing. 



USES. The root may be eaten, but is seldom so used. The 



