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 partly superseded by the 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 



