It was composed of oil, in which had been steeped the bruised fruit or pods of a plant very much resembling the Tabasco pepper-plant.

I gave him some of my liniment, and also showed him some of the little pepper pods, so that he might procure them at any time in the future when he should need them.

A tree resembling the sycamore of the Murchison, but with the leaves arranged in triplets, and the seed pods in the form of a large bean, grows near the river and attains to two feet in diameter, with a height of forty feet; the wood is light and spongy, something resembling the Nuytsia floribunda, but not gummy.

This is a common plant in English gardens, bearing yellow Pea-shaped flowers, that are succeeded by curious reddish bladder-like seed pods.

The green, sweaty leaves, the fat, bloated pods, and the lengths of pythonesque runners produced a mental nausea.

It throws out flower stalks, at the end of which pods appear.

Inside the pods is a soft, white down, which is called cotton.

A little higher a fringe of broom, the blossom gone, the pods blackening and shooting their seeds in the sun, marked the line of the virgin wilderness.

I walked or waded through a number of miry little streets where all manner of refuse was in a saturated or deliquescent statecabbage-stumps and dead rats floating in the gutters, potato-peelings and bean-pods sticking to the mediaeval pitchingeverything slippery, nasty, and abominable.

Our native pears are tolerably tempting to the look, but defy both mastication and digestion, being the pendulous seed-pods of a tree here, and their outer husks of such a hard woody consistence, as to put the edge of even a well-tempered knife to proof of its qualities in slicing them down.

According to Mrs. Walters, a single winter's feeding of hot corn-meal, scraps of bacon, and pods of red pepper will all but bring about a variation of species; and so if the assumed rate at which I am now going were kept up a hundred years, my cedar-trees might be full of a race of red-birds as large and as fat as geese.

I heard, only the other day, in North Carolina, of the consternation struck to the heart of a certain dark individual, upon finding upon his doorstep a rabbit's foota good omen in itself perhapsto which a malign influence had been imparted by tying to one end of it, in the form of a cross, two small pods of red pepper!

The Moors tan skins with the dried pods of the Gummiferous Accia: thus prepared, they are impenetrable to the rain, and it may be affirmed that, for their suppleness, as well as for the brilliancy and finesss of their grain, they might become a valuable fur in Europe, either for use or ornament.

In a publication, printed since this expedition, it has been stated, that maize was cultivated in the open fields, by the negroes of Cape Verd, whereas they cultivate no species of grain, except two kinds of houlques, to which they add, here and there, but in smaller fields, a kind of haricot, or French bean, dolique unguiculé, which they gather in October, and a part of which they sell at Goree and St. Louis, either in pods or seed.

When dried, the shining seed-pods make a handsome addition to winter bouquets, mixed with ornamental grass.

As soon as the pods are setting apply weak liquid manure to the roots when the ground is moist.

P. Francheti produces seed-pods over 2 in.

The carob, or St. John's bread-tree, is plentiful; and the long thick pods which it produces are exported in considerable quantities to Syria and Egypt.

STEWED PEAS.If from the garden, pick and shell the peas with clean hands; if from the market, wash the pods before shelling, so that the peas will not require washing, as they are much better without.

Break off stems and points, carefully rejecting any imperfect or diseased pods.

He has been watching them ever since they first came up out of the ground, and when he showed me the nice big pods and told me they would be ready to pick in a day or two, he looked so proud and happy that you might have thought his peas were little living people.

SUGAR PEAS Sugar peas may be cooked in the pods like string beans.

Gather the pods while the seeds are still very small; string like beans and cut into pieces.

BOILED OKRA Wash and cut off the ends of young pods, cover with boiling salted water and cook about twenty minutes, until tender.

To a pint of okra pods, washed and sliced, allow a dozen ripe tomatoes, peeled and sliced, and one medium-sized onion.