434 NEW JERSEY AGRICULTUEAL COLLEGE 



"Blaok Pekin" upon "Black Snake "-(3/2). 



Nine plants of this cross were grown and they showed both 

 parents in the tallness of the plants and the dark foliage and 

 stems. All the plants came into bearing early and were compara- 

 tively fruitful. The fruits themselves Avere not large;, quite elon- 

 gated, somewhat curved and combined the characteristics of the 

 two parents. A sample is shown at 2 in the engraving. 



"Dwarf Purple" upon "Black Beauty "-(5/4). 



There were ten plants of this cross, all of them large and excel- 

 lent. Fine marketable fruits were in abundance on July 14th and 

 were quite uniformly of the oval type shown at 3 in the engraving. 

 There was a tendency on the part of the plants to break up into 

 two types as to size, half l>eing strictly standards and the other 

 five of a more dwarfish nature. The foliage was unusually strong, 

 the leaves being broad and green, as also were the stems. This is a 

 promising cross. 



"Dwarf Purple" upon '* New York Improved"— (6/19.) 



This cross showed strongly the blood of the "Dwarf Purple," 

 giving a set of low, spreading plants with purplish foliage and 

 stems. The fruit, of good size and produced in abundance, was 

 of a handsome pear-shape, as shown at 4. 



"Jersey Belle" upon "Black Snake"— (10/2). 



This cross was represented by thirteen plants, all of them quite 

 tall like the "Black Snake," wdth dark foliage and stems. The 

 fiTiits were produced in abundance and had a long, cylindrical 

 form, shown at 5, and varied as to the color, some of them being of 

 a rich purple while others were inclined to be green and somewhat 

 striped, as indicated in the engraving. This type of fruit" is quite 

 close to that of the "Station Eggplant No. 1," seed of which was 

 distributed to a limited number at the beginning of the season. 



