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preaching when one color for eggplant fruits will be a memory 

 only, a green, lilac, pink and white will be associated with the 

 purple upon the market stands as proper qualifications for public 

 favor in eggplants. At that time, not far away, this vegetable 

 will have gained its rightful place in the esteem of all. 



The fruits under consideration are interesting in not showing 

 under the calyx any of the little color that still remains — a char- 

 acteristic that comes from the "Dwarf Oval" parent and is evi- 

 dent in the engraving, in which a line of white is shown around 

 the calyx where the coloration due to exposure to the sun does 

 not keep pace with the elongation of the fruit. 



TABLE OF EGGPLANT CROSSES. 



Record Number 

 of Cross. 



Plant 

 Color. 



2/ 5// 29 



2-29 



3//2/6 



3-11 



5-27 

 10//2/5 

 10//3/2 

 10//6/19 

 10-29 

 11-3 



21//5/2 

 21//6/19 

 26 2-6 

 26//2/18 

 26//10/2 

 27-29 

 28// 10/ 6 

 28-29 

 29//2/6 

 29//5/19 



2-6 II 



2-18 



2-5 



2-5 



3-2 



3-5 



6-19 

 10-17 

 11-2 

 11-4 



Purplish 



Light purple 2 



Purplish 



Green. 



Purplish. 

 Green 



Purplish 



Pun^le and green . 



Purplish 



Purple and green . 

 Purple and green . 



Ex 





Fruit Color. 



Purple and green 



Purple and green 



Purple 



Purple and green 



Purple 



Green and purple 



Purple 



White and striped 



Light purple 



Purplish/ 



Purple 



Purple 



Purple and greenish white 

 Greenish white 



Average. 



Number of 



Fruits per 



Plant. 



23 



11 

 14 

 19 

 14 

 13 

 11 

 11 

 21 

 13 

 10 

 15 

 14 

 12 

 13 

 8 

 12 

 12 

 16 

 12 

 15 

 23 

 15 

 12 

 15 

 14 

 9 

 9 



REPORTS FROM TESTERS OF IVORY EGGPLANT. 



(i) "This is a very rapid grower; the plant is green in color with snowy 

 white fruit, which is long in shape, of good size and a good bearer." (2) 

 "Very prouctive and of excellent size." (3) "The plants were set out late 



