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“Ourious Plants and Bonier) now in their Per fection. 
i, . COMMON CAPSICUM. .. 
ev HIS is a Plant whofe Singularity firft 
gave it a Place in Gardens, which it 
4 me a Right always to preferve. 
Flower is inconfiderable, but the Fruit is confpi- 
cuous, in the higheft Degree: it ferves the dou- 
ble Purpofe alfo of Pet aS and Ute; for it 
_ affords an excellent Pickle. 
Its vulgar Name is Guinea Pepper: the com: 
_ mon Writers call it Capficum, and Piper Indicum. 
Linnavus diftinguithes it by the Name of Cap- 
Sicum caule berbaceo: Capficum with herbaceous 
Stalks. 
_ The Plant is two Foot high, valzoules diffus’d 
in Branches, and but irregularly-erect. The 
long and large; they converge at the Top, and to- 
- gether fc: the Clutter in the Centre. of the 
The 
Flower. In the Midft of thefe ftands the Style; 
which is fingle and blunt at its Extremity. 
We obferved to the Reader in our firft Num= 
ber, that the Fifth Clafs of Linn avs; compre- 
hends under the Title of PrenTanprta, thofe 
Plants in whofe Flowers are only five Threads, 
_ Capficum is one of thefe ; and the Style being 
Aiais. 
fingle, it is referred to the firft SeGtion of that 
It is therefore one of the PENTANDRIA 
_ Monoeyrnta. Thefe Terms we have explained 
Leaves are undivided, long, and broad. The: 
Flowers are moderately large, and of a: whitifh 
Colour, with a kind of purple Knob in the 
Centre. They hang on Foot-ftalks from various 
Parts of the Plant. 
The Fruit is very large, long, thick, and of 
a glofly Surface. 
jet, and it refembles polifh’d Coral. 
The Flower examined accurately, is found to be 
Its Colour is an elegant Scar- 
conftructed of a fingle Petal, tubular a little Way | 
at the Bottom, and divided at the Top into five 
_ broad, folded, expanded, and pointed Segments. 
This Flower ftands in a Cup, form’d of a fingle 
_ are requir’d one to fucceed the other: 
Piece, divided at the Edge into five or more | 
Parts, which remains with the Fruit: in the tu- 
bular Part of the Flower arife five Filaments : 
thefe are fhort and fmall, but their Buttons are ob- 
Numb. II. 
already ; their Senfe is, that the F lower has five 
Male and one F emale Part. 
% be Culture of C AP sICU My: 
It is a Native of the warmeft Climates of 
America and Africa; and is an annual Plant. 
It is one of thofe the Gardener muft raife on 
hot Beds in Spring 
in the Summet. 
To do this properly, feveral of thefe pk: Beds 
each is to 
receive the Plants which the former have thrown 
up from the Seed, or raifed to fome Bignefs. 
Let the firft Hot Bed be made ready for the 
Seeds in February; the laft Week of that Month 
will be the proper Time for fowing them. Some 
do it later; but the Plants rais'd early have a 
iE great 
, to plant out into his Borders 
