chile-plants

Updated: May 15, 2025

There is an air of neglect that impresses you; an air of spontaneity about the picture for the yams and the melons, and the chile-plants, half choked with weeds, seem to grow without culture, and the sun gives warmth, so as to render almost unnecessary the operations of the spindle and the loom. The forest opens again, and another picture a prettier one presents itself.

Mayne Reid - The Rifle Rangers