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plants showed flowers tliat were well opened. These were hand 

 pollinated and thej set fruit freely. On February 15th some of 

 these fruits were 2^ inches long, the plants still growing well and 

 producing many blossoms. It was at this time that the lirst flowers 

 of Black Pekin appeared, but New York Imj^roved had not yet pro- 

 duced any, althongh it was making a strong growth. Round Purple 

 and Long White were making a very slow and weak growth. 



73.— Early Dwarf Purple Egg-plant under glass. 



Figure 73 represents a plant of Early Dwarf Pnrple that was 

 photographed May 29th. It was bearing at this time 21 fruits of 

 varying sizes and appeared to be strong enough to mature fruits 

 from buds that were still forming. The larger fruits were fully 

 4 inches in diameter, and nearly 6 inches long. They were not 

 removed as soon as grown, as should be done in order to get as 

 large a yield as possible, and for this reason the product of the 

 plant is the more remarkable. All the fruits did not attain the 

 size mentioned above for the crop was too heavy for the plant to 

 mature it properly ; neither were all the plants of this variety 



