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Tea In Various Stages Of Manufacture

on the ground for manure, as used to be the common practice in former years. XIII. Spices and Their Adulteration-Pepper.

THE pepper of commerce is of two kinds. Red, or cayenne pepper, is the product of our common bird or Chili pepper, an annual plant which may be ripened any where in the United States south of forty-five degrees, by starting the plants in a hot-bed, and transplanting. The Cayenne pepper of commerce is the fully ripened fruit pods, thoroughly dried and ground to powder.