232 MISCELLANEOUS WARM PLANTS. 
Round Purple and Long White were making a very 
slow and weak growth. 
A plant of Early Dwarf Purple that was photographed 
May 29 is shown in Fig. 83. 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 form- 
ing. 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 
8&3. Early Dwarf Purple eggplant in winter. 
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 equally prolific, al- 
though their yield in many cases closely approached 
that shown in the illustration. This variety proved to 
be by far the most promising of those grown for forcing 
purposes, and it appears to be capable of producing 
