Mr Poindexter has obligingly offered to carry you ... a species of Capsicum indigenous in the provence of Taxas ... It grows in very great abundance in the prairies west of the Sabine ... it is with the Spaniards and Savages an article in as great use as common salt is among the inhabitants of the U. S. ... The roots are perennial and in your climate would only require protection from the most severe frost: Ieffersonius ed. Bettsp. 490, cf. p. 514. De Samuele Brown; item
They were exactly in time for sowing ... I dibbled them however in a pot to give them their best chance. As being the production of a more northerly climate than those we cultivate I am in hopes they will be hardier, and, if so, more valuable: Ieffersonius ed. Bettsp. 508, cf. p. 522
... a little of the fruit of a Capsicum I have just received from the province of Texas, where it is indigenous and perennial, and is used as freely as salt by the inhabitants. It is new to me. It differs from your Capsicum Minimum in being perennial and probably hardier; perhaps, too, in it's size, which would claim the term of Minutissimum. This stimulant being found salutary in a visceral complaint known on the seacoast, the introduction of a hardier variety may be of value: Ieffersonius ed. Bettsp. 516, cf. pp. 515, 518. De Ioanne Shecut
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Mr Poindexter has obligingly offered to carry you ... a species of Capsicum indigenous in the provence of Taxas ... It grows in very great abundance in the prairies west of the Sabine ... it is with the Spaniards and Savages an article in as great use as common salt is among the inhabitants of the U. S. ... The roots are perennial and in your climate would only require protection from the most severe frost: Ieffersonius ed. Bettsp. 490, cf. p. 514. De Samuele Brown; item
... a little of the fruit of a Capsicum I have just received from the province of Texas, where it is indigenous and perennial, and is used as freely as salt by the inhabitants. It is new to me. It differs from your Capsicum Minimum in being perennial and probably hardier; perhaps, too, in it's size, which would claim the term of Minutissimum. This stimulant being found salutary in a visceral complaint known on the seacoast, the introduction of a hardier variety may be of value: Ieffersonius ed. Bettsp. 516, cf. pp. 515, 518. De Ioanne Shecut
The other kinds cultivated with us, coming from still warmer climates, are difficult of cultivation. My expectation is that this, being indigenous so much nearer our latitudes, may be easier raised ... I have sowed a few seeds in a pot, and reserve others for the spring; they will be more likely however to be preserved in your hands: Jefferson to ad McMahon, 15 Iunii 1813, in J. Jefferson Looney, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series vol. 6 (Princetoniae: Princeton University Press, 2009) pp. 195–196
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Mr Poindexter has obligingly offered to carry you ... a species of Capsicum indigenous in the provence of Taxas ... It grows in very great abundance in the prairies west of the Sabine ... it is with the Spaniards and Savages an article in as great use as common salt is among the inhabitants of the U. S. ... The roots are perennial and in your climate would only require protection from the most severe frost: Ieffersonius ed. Bettsp. 490, cf. p. 514. De Samuele Brown; item
