228 MISCELLANEOUS WARM PLANTS. 
as of all other winter gardening, consists in having new 
plants ready to take the place of the old ones. As soon 
as the old plants are removed, fork up the beds, add a 
liberal quantity of strong, short manure, and replant im- 
mediately. 
The enemies are few, red spider and mite being the 
worst, and these are kept in check by maintaining a 
moist atmosphere. 
St. Winter beans ready for market. 
EGGPLANT.* 
The possibility of forcing eggplants successfully was 
suggested by a crop which was grown under glass in 
one of the market gardens near Boston, in the spring of 
1891. These plants were not grown with the intention of 
forcing them; but as the greenhouse was vacant at the 
time the main crop of eggplants was set out of doors, 
it was filled with plants taken from the same lot as those 
set in the open. The beds in which they were planted 
were solid; that is, the prepared soil rested upon the 
natural surface of the ground, forming a layer from 12 to 
15 inches in depth. During the preceding winter these 
beds had served for growing lettuce, and they had con- 
quently been well enriched with stable manure, a fertil- 
izer which is especially effective in the production of 
*E. G. Lodeman, Bulletin 95, Cornell Exp. Sta. Bulletin 26 of 
this Station is an account of the cultivation of eggplants in the field. 
