CAPSICUM, OR RED PEPPER 



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Early Dwarf Red Squash Pepper 



in exceptional cases ; the flesh is always rather dry and thin. 

 There is a sub-variety with yellow seed-vessels. 



Early Dwarf Red Squash 

 Capsicum. — Of dwarfer habit, 

 less leafy, and earlier than the 

 Tomato Capsicum, and therefore 

 a good substitute for it in places 

 where that fails to ripen its pods, 

 although the fruit is not perhaps 

 quite as regular in shape. The 

 fruit is sometimes pungent. 



Celestial Capsicum. — Of 

 medium size, erect, and branch- 

 ing. It is something like the 

 Chili Pepper, but smaller and 

 not so bushy. The pods are 

 numerous, erect, and conical ; 

 in colour white, striped purple 

 at first, which gradually changes to yellow, and finally to 

 scarlet. The contrasting colours of the pods on the same plant 

 are strangely effective. 



Other varieties: — 



Violet-coloured or Black Capsicum. — A vigorous plant, often 

 over 3 ft. in height, with violet stems. Fruit variable in shape, 



sometimes short conical, 

 but oftenest four times 

 as long as broad ; deep 

 violet -red when ripe. 

 Very pungent. 



Chinese Giant 

 Pepper. — A late, leafy 

 variety, with large square 

 fruit of a brilliant red. 



Kaleidoscope Capsi- 

 cum. — This plant has 

 the fine shape of the 

 Celestial Pepper, with 

 spreading branches. 

 Fruit at first yellow- 

 white, changing to orange, 

 and then rose or pale red. 



Procopp's Giant 

 Capsicum. — A kind of 

 Monstrous Capsicum, the 

 fruits being very large, bumpy, and twisted like those of the 

 French varieties. 



Celestial Capsicum. 



