

V. CAMOMILE, CAPSICUM. 



ashes, or some other thing, cover the point of each crown 

 with a large flower-pot, which, keeping the sun and air 

 from the shoots, these are bleached even after they come 

 up above the ashes or the sand. This appears to be a 

 very good way j for it saves the trouble of putting on 

 litter or leaves, which are very ugly things in a garden. 



133. CAMOMILE is a perennial medicinal herb of 

 great use. It may be propagated from seed, but it is 

 most easily propagated by parting the roots. One little 

 bit of root will soon make a bed sufficient for a garden. 

 The flowers, which are used in medicine, should be 

 gathered before they begin to fade, and at a time when 

 they^are perfectly dry j and then put into a shady and 

 airy place to dry, which they will do perfectly, but not in 

 less than a month. When perfectly dry, they should be 

 put into a paper bag, hung up in a dry place, and kept 

 from all dust. 



134. CAPSICUM. This is a plant of a hot country. 

 It is sowed in the natural ground of the United States of 

 America, though it is a native of countries which are 

 never cold. The seed is, in this country, sowed in a 

 gentle hot-bed, in the month of March. In the middle 

 of April, they may be moved out, and planted under a 

 warm wall, so as to be covered by a frame and lights, or 

 by hand-glasses. And so as to have air given them in 

 the warm part of the day. When no more frost is to be 

 expected, and when the general earth becomes warm j 

 that is to say, about the third week in June, the plants, 

 very carefully taken up and with the earth not much 

 shaken off from their roots, should be transplanted in a 



