438 NEW JERSEY AGEICULTURAL COLLEGE 



Tlie above table of the tliirty-six plants, grown from seed from 

 the single-blend plant of the previous season, shows several leading 

 points in which the individuals differed from each other. The 

 general terms as to size in the first column, when grouped, include 

 the following number of plants : Large, 3 ; tall, 7 ; medium, 17 ; 

 small, 1 ; low, 4 ; dwarf, 4. In other w^ords, there were above 

 medium, 10; medium, 17, and below medium, 9, or one-half were 

 medium and one-quarter tall and the other quarter dwarfed. The 

 record of color of stems and foliage show^s that six were green, with 

 three others with a combination of green and purple ; that is, one- 

 quarter showed green and three-quarters purple. The size and 

 appearance of the leaves varied greatly, and do not admit of much 

 grouping. There were 14 large, 15 medium and 7 small-leaved 

 plants, and 22 with smooth leaves, 12 with crinkled foliage, and 

 2 that were midway between the two. There were only 3 of the 

 plants with prickles or "spines." , 



The flowers varied somewhat in size, and those borne by purple 

 plants were pink, while the green plants had white blossoms. As 

 a rule, the flowers were numerous, but failed tO' set fruit. In tliis 

 last point of fruitfulness there was a great range. There w^ere 

 four plants that produced no mature fruits, one of them being 

 among the largest in the block. The four dwarfs gave an average 

 of eighteen fruits, while the largest plant averaged only about 

 three fruits. This condition of fruitfulness is well shown in Plate 

 X., where a large and small plant are given, the former bearing no 

 fruits and the latter thirty. The size, shape and color of the fruits 

 upon any given plant were quite constant, but there were many 

 variations upon the whole block. The fruits from the two parents 

 are shown in the upper half of Plate XL, "American" at 1 and 

 "Chinese" at 2, and sample fruit-bearing stems from ten hybrids 

 are shown from 2 to 10, those at the left being more nearly smooth 

 and most approaching the common garden parent. Many things 

 are lost in the engraving, as, for example, color, which is uniformly 

 orange, and therefore differing but little from the "Chinese" 

 parent. The shade, how^ever, varies, and in those fruits that are 

 nearest "apple-shaped," as at 2 and 3, the color approaches lemon, 

 and something like that taken on by certain garden eggplant fruits, 

 as the "Dwarf Purple" when fully mature. The three fruits 

 shown at 7 are larger than the "Chinese," but quite as flat, and 



