GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



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IMPROVED VELVET BEAN. 



The Improved Velvet Bean as a Fertilizer.— The Improved Velvet Bean, or 

 more properly, "Pea," (as it belongs to the Cow Pea family) is a vining or climbing plant 

 growing to forty and fifty feet, and branches literally covered with foliage. It is a nitro- 

 genous plant, enriching the ground so much that Orange growers in Florida plant the 

 Velvet Bean in their groves'for fertilizer as well as forage. When planted in rows four 

 feet apart and one foot in the rows, two or three beans in a place, as soon as danger of 

 frost is past, cultivated once or twice to give vines a start of weeds and grass, they grow 

 very rapidly, and in two months the under leaves begin to drop, and by fall the mulch of 

 leaves is often six to eight inches deep. 



Velvet Beans are cheaper at $4.00 per bushel then Cow Peas at $1.25, as it requires 

 but 1 peck per acre, whereas Cow Peas require 1^ bushels. 



PEPPER. 



Piment ( Fr. ), Spanischer Peeefer (Ger;), Pimento (Sp.) 



* Sweet Spanish or Monstrous. 

 \ Sweet Pepper, Ruby King. 



Golden Dawn Mango. 

 \ Bell or Bull Nose. 

 yCong Red Cayenne. 

 v Red Chetry. 



Bird Eye. 



Chili. 



Tabasco. 

 \ Red Cluster. 

 v Celestial. 

 v Columbus. 



Peppers are tender and require to be raised in the hot bed. Seed should be sown in 

 January, and when large enough transplanted into the ground in rows from one and a 

 half to two feet apart, and a foot to a foot and a half in the rows. There are more Pep- 

 pers rnised here than in other sections of the country; the hot varieties are used for sea- 

 soning and making pepper sauce; the mild variety is highly esteemsd for salad. Care 

 should be taken not to grow different kinds close together, as they mix very readily. 



Sweet Spanish or Monstrous Pepper. 



Sweet Spanish or Monstrous. A 



Very popular variety, much cultivated. It 

 is very mild, grows to a large size, tapering 

 towards the end, and, when green, is used 

 as a salad. Superior for that purpose to 

 any other kind. 



/ 



Long Red Ceyenne Peppei. 



Sweet Pepper, Ruby King. This 

 variety grows to a larger size than the 

 Sweet Spanish Monstrous, and is of differ- 

 ent shape. The fruit is from 5 to 6 inches 

 long by about 3 to 4 inches in diameter, 

 and of bright red color. It is remarkably 



Hoes, Shovels, Spades and Rakes, all Makes. 



