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in the fniit?^. The same peculiar lemon color was imifonnly re- 

 tained in the next g-eneration. 



Nothing; has l)een done directly to study the peculiar fruit coat 

 that is characteristic of the peach. In the cross of the ''1903" with 

 the "Quarter Century" (143//165/14o) the "i)each" surface was 

 apparent upon the tomatoes of four out of five plants, and in this 

 respect fdlloweil the male. It shonld he said that the '"1903" hlood 

 in this instance is represented by the fraction %. The results of 

 previous ohservations lead to the opinion that tlie fine hairiness 

 upon the fruit is not expected upon more than a quarter of the 

 plants in the tirst generatioii, after the blend, when one parent has 

 that characteristic. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH EGGPLANTS. 



Durinii- the ]iresent season, the area devoted to eggplants has 

 been ehietiy oeeupifil with crosses between the several varieties, 

 iind, necessarily, but little space was given to the parent sorts. A 

 comparatively full list of the commercial varieties that have been 

 grown, with ]iartial descriptions of the same, are given in the 

 Eeport for 1905, pages 485-492. There were only a few repre- 

 sentatives of the ''Jersey Belle" upon the Home Grounds. Packets 

 of the seed of this sort were distril>u.ted in the winter to two hun- 

 dred and twenty-six (226) aj^plicants, nearly all within the State, 

 and from their reports the following extracts are made.'^ 



Reports upon the "Jersey Belle" Eggplant. 



''This eggplant is very large and productive for an early sort, 

 good purple color, well shaped, some slight variation as to type." 

 ^'Would say my 'Jersey Belle' egg'plants are the finest I or any of 

 mv neia:hbors ever saw. Thev stand three and four feet high, and 

 are very bushy. The stems are a very dark purple, also the fruit. 

 I picked my first the twenty-first of July and it measured twenty- 

 three inches around and tAventy-six the long way. They are per- 



* Seedling eggplants are not as easy to grow as young cabbage plants, or even 

 tomatoes, and this seems to be the reason for the failures, in some instances, to secure 

 satisfactory plants. If the trial of these seeds has led growers to look more carefully 

 to details in such matters in the future, the results marked failures will not be 

 altogether without fiuit. 



