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Red Cherry Pepper. Long Red Cayenne Pepper. 
Long Red Cayenne. Is very hot and pungent. Cultivated 
here and used for pepper sauce and seasoning purposes. There are two 
varieties; one is long and straight, and the other like shown in cut, 
which is the only kind I keep. 
Red Cherry. Asmallroundish variety, very hot and productive. 
Bird Eye. Small, as the name indicates. It is very hot and 
used principally for pepper vinegar. 
Chili or Tabasco. A small variety, from three-fourths to an 
inch long. It is strong, and used for pepper sauce more than any 
other sort. 
POTATOES. 
PoMME DE TERRE (FYr.), KARTOFFEL (Ger.). 
-Earzty Rose. SNOWFLAKE. 
BREESE’S PEERLESS. ‘ Beauty oF HEBRON. 
RUSSETS. WHITE ELEPHANT. 
ExtTrRA EARLY VERMONT. 
Potatoes thrive and produce best in a light, dry but rich soil. 
Well decomposed stable manure is the best, but, ifit cannot be had, 
cotton seed meal, bone dust, or any other fertilizer should be used to 
make the ground rich enough. If the ground was planted the fall 
previous with Cow Peas, which were plowed under, it will bein good 
condition for Potatoes. Good sized tubers should be selected for 
planting, which can be cut in pieces not too small; each piece ought 
to contain at least three eyes. Plant in drills from two to three feet 
apart, according to the space and how to be cultivated afterwards. 
For field culture, two anda half to three feet apart; for garden, two 
feet will answer. We plant potatoes here from end of December to 
end of March, but the surest time is about the first of February. If 
planted early they should be planted deeper than if planted late, and 
hilled up asthey grow. If potatoes are planted shallow and not hilled 
soon, they will suffer more, if caught by a late frost, than if planted 
deep and hilled up well. Early potatoes have not the same value here 
