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At 7 is a combination of the "Striped" (shown at 6) upon a 

 cross of "Dwarf Oval" upon "New York Improved" 

 (21///6/19). The plants were medium, purple and productive, 

 the fruits being of a handsome, long oval and of a solid purple 

 color without sign of the stripes of the parent. 



The fruit at 9 is a cross of the "Ivory" (shown at 8) upon 

 the "Black Snake" with the "Dwarf Purple" (26/7/2/5 ). The 

 fruit shape is long like the "Ivory" but has the purple color 

 dominant. It is a good keeper. 



At 10 is shown a fruit of the cross of the "Ivory" upon 

 "Black Snake-New York Improved" (26//2/18). This is some- 

 what different in shape from the last and has less purple in the 

 stem and foliage. 



The fruit at 11 is a combination of the "Jersey Pink" upon 

 tlie "Jersey Belle-Dwarf Purple" cross (28//10/5), which has 

 produced a set of small plants that bore a good crop of fair- 

 sized fruits. 



In the next double cross (12), the "Round White" is bred 

 upon the "Black Snake-Dwarf Purple" (29//2/5) with the re- 

 sult that a solid, short, oval fruit is obtained in considerable 

 numbers. 



The last fruit shown (13) also has the "Round White" as the 

 pollinator upon the "Dwarf Purple-New York Improved" cross 

 ( 29/75/ 18). As seen, a fine pear-shaped fruit has resulted with 

 a firm skin and white flesh. This combination brings together 

 three widely different kinds of eggplants. Taking up the parents 

 in the order in which the double cross was developed, the "Dwarf 

 Purple," which as its name indicates is a low-growing type with 

 the purple color everywhere abounding, in leaf, stem and smal- 

 lish pear-shaped fruit, was bred upon the "New York Improved," 

 which is one of the most generally grown of the large-fruited 

 sorts. As a result of this cross, strong, moderately low-growing 

 plants were secured that produced good-sized fruits of a shape 

 between the "pear" and "oval" types. 



Upon the above was brought, as the pollinator, the "Round 

 White," which is easily recognized by the small white oval fruits, 

 borne upon plants of medium size. Plate XIV shows a sample 

 plant of the result of the double cross and from it may be truth- 

 fully gathered, first of all, that the combination is very prolific; 

 there are fully twenty fruits of marketable size but none of them 

 approaching the great "eggs" that are borne often singly by 

 some of the commercial sorts. The color of the fruit is a shade 

 of lilac, more or less mottled, and in this respect is quite unusual 

 and at first sight might not satisfy the old standard of a deep 

 purple that has been in vogue for long. The time is fast ap- 



