210 VEGETABLE GARDENING. 



Long Red Cayenne. — Fruit long and slender. Very pungent 



Figure 108— Varieties of Peppers. 1— Bird's Eve. 2— Tomato Shaped. 3— New 

 Orleans. 4— Golden Beli. 5— Very Small Caveniie. 6— Sweet Spanish. 

 7-Cluster. 8— Ruby King-, g— Celestial. {After La7idreth.) 



THE MARTYNA FAMILY. (Order Martiniaceae.) 



MARTYNIA. (Martynia probosidea.) 

 Native of southwestern United States. — Annual. — A coarse- 

 growing, spreading plant, having a peculiar shaped fruit that is 

 used for pickles. The flowers are large, irregular and rather 

 pretty. The fruit is tender when young 

 but is nearly as hard as horn when ripe. 

 The seeds are black with a rough surface. 



Culture. — This is a plant of the easi- 

 est culture. The seed should be sown as 

 soon as the soil settles in the spring, in 

 hills about three feet apart each way. 

 Where seeds are allowed to ripen, plants 

 usually appear the following spring. 

 There is onlv one kind. 



Figure 109— Martynia. 



THE GOURD FAMILY. (Order Cucurbitaceae.) 

 The gourd fanrtily is made up of mostly tendril bearing herbs, 



