CAPSICUM, OR RED PEPPER 



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grow. It is a dwarf branch- 

 ing plant, with pendent 

 seed-vessels about ij in. 

 in length and of about the 

 same thickness ; in colour 

 a beautiful bright yellow, 

 sometimes orange. It is 

 fairly productive, and about 

 as early as the Sweet 

 Mountain Capsicum. 



Mammoth Golden 

 Queen Capsicum. — A 

 strong plant, with abundant 

 leaves of dark green colour, 

 and slightly spoon-shaped. 

 For earliness it equals the 

 Golden Dawn Capsicum, 

 and surpasses the Sweet 

 Spanish Capsicum. It is 

 distinguished from both by 

 the greater size of its seed- 

 vessels. 



Monstrous Capsicum.- 

 up to a certain point, intermediate between those of the Guinea 

 Pepper and those of the Bell Pepper, but they surpass both in size. 



They are an irregular 

 ovoid or conical shape, 

 swollen in the part next 

 the stalk, and narrowed 

 at the other end, usually'^ 

 more abruptly on one 

 side than on the other, 

 so that one side is 

 generally quite convex, 

 while the other is rriore 

 or less concave. The 

 appearance of the seed- 

 vessel is well indicated 

 by the name of Sheep's- 

 head Pepper, which is 

 sometimes given to it. 

 Well grown, it measures 

 about 6 in. in length, 

 with a diameter of about 

 3 in. in the thickest part ; 



ripe, it is a 



Mammoth Golden Queen Pepper. 



-The seed-vessels of this variety are 



Monstrous Capsicum natural size). 



and, when 



