230 MISCELLANEOUS WARM PLANTS. 
proved to be so full of suggestions regarding the proper 
methods of treating them that they should have repaid 
the time given to their cultivation by a plentiful harvest of 
ideas, if not of fruits. The eggplant will generally set 
fruit without the assistance of pollen, but the fruit never 
attains its normal size. Fig. 
$2. shows a_ non-pollinated 
fruit which has reached the 
limit of 1ts-size, ~~ “Taewecader 
will be able to measure its 
size by noticing that the calyx 
covers almost half of it. The 
fruit from which this picture 
was made was about 4 inches 
long. 
Acting on the above hints, 
several attempts have been 
made to grow eggplants in 
our forcing-houses, with the 
object, however, of fruiting 
them out of season. ‘The first 
—— lot of seed was sown August 
30, 1893. It embraced the 
following varieties: Black Pe- 
kin, New York Improved, Early Dwarf Purple, Round 
Purple, and Long White. The seed was sown about 
3g of an inch deep in rich potting soil. The flats, or 
shallow boxes, which contained the seed were placed in 
a warm house, and the after-treatment was very similar 
to that commonly followed in the growing of tomatoes. 
The seedlings required pricking out about four weeks 
after the. seed was sown. They were set in 2%-inch 
pots, where they remained until November 14, when 
they were shifted into 4-inch pots. On December 17, 
or nearly 16 weeks from the time of seed sowing, the 
plants had filled these pots with roots, and they were 
again shifted, but this time into benches. They were 
$2. Non-poliinated fruit. 
