320 NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL 



Reports from Testers for the "Jersey Pink." 



"Eggplants fair growth, quite productive." "Plants are larger 

 and less subject to blight than those of 'Black Beauty' in the next 

 row, and are also more productive and earlier. The fruits are 

 long, mostly purple, a few white ones, all very good quality." 

 "The plants are growing very nicely and the fruit is just devel- 

 oping, one is about five inches long. I think there will be a great 

 many." "The plants are about two and a half feet high, very 

 vigorous and productive, and full of blossoms, the fruit is mostly 

 pink, some are white, long and of a nice size. The quality is of 

 the best and when known well will be much sought for." "Strong, 

 vigorous growth, and look very fine." "Best plant has seven 

 fruits set ; shape, uniform ; quality, first class, plants have grown 

 nicely since it has been warm enough. Have cut seven large 

 enough to eat. Think it very promising for home use or for 

 discriminating buyers of fancy fruits." "Good-sized plants, rapid 

 growers, good bearers." "Good grower and productive." "The 

 eggplants were very large; the fruit was long and thin." "Quality 

 excellent; it is a large job for the good wife to fry enough to 

 satisfy my appetite. Never had so many eggs before; twel -e on 

 one plant, all oblong." "The eggplant was of two colors; purple 

 and white, but no difference in the taste, both were very tooth- 

 some and I consider it grew very well for me." 



Hybrid Eggplants. 



Plate XIII. show's a set of fruits gathered singly, or a cluster 

 from each plant, thus representing fourteen individuals and 

 nearly as many types of fruits. A sample fruit of the male parent 

 of the union, namely, the common "American" eggplant is shown 

 at the left hand upper corner ( i ) and the "Chinese" species, upon 

 which it was worked in 1904, is shown in the opposite corner 

 (16) of the plate. In 1905, the single blend plant was grown 

 and the following is taken from the report for that year : "In a 

 few words, this hybrid shows remarkable vigor, growing to per- 

 haps three times the size of its parents, with a great tendency to 

 produce blooms, which quickly fall away. It behaved like a per- 

 ennial and did not find time in an unusually long season to mature 

 more than two dozen fruits." 



