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The schedule of color of the exteriors is as follows: 



Purple 5 



Pink with green beneath calyx 2 



" white " " 2 



Green 4 



Greenish white 2 



There is no api)arent correlatiijii between the color and shape. 

 There are only two specimens white beneath the calyx, that is, 

 with the white flesh that characterizes the "Long White," and 

 these are both pink and otherwise easily distinguished from the 

 pinks with the green beneath the calyx and indicative of the 

 lack of white flesh but instead pervaded with green, especially 

 near the surface. 



COLORS IN EGGPLANT FRUITS. 



The commonly accepted color for eggplant fruits is purple 

 and any other color is not yet popular. There are ranges in the 

 shades of purple as the fruits are displayed in the market or at 

 the vegetable shows. Thus the color of the "New York Im- 

 proved" (19) is quite different from that of the "Black Pekin" 

 (3), the latter having a darker and brighter shade not easily 

 described. With the latter belong the "dwarf purples" and a 

 few others as "Tokio." 



The surface color of the "Pekin" seems to demand the sun- 

 light for its full development as it may be retarded by bagging 

 the fruit; or even the shade of the plant itself or a single leaf 

 lying across the developing "egg" may occasion a striking con- 

 trast in the surface of the fruit. The large overlapping calyx in 

 this type, when lifted, exposes no rich purple of the surface that 

 it covered ; and when cut away, the pink of the developing color 

 soon appears. 



In case of the less rich "velvety" color of the fruits of a group 

 of varieties represented by the "New York Improved," the color 

 is nearly as strongly developed under the calyx as elsewhere and 

 the sunny side of the fruit is not strongly marked by the deeper 

 color. 



With these two shades of purple in mind, it is necessary to go 

 deeper without discussing further the surface colors because of 

 the marked influence of the flesh color upon that of the surface. 

 As pointed out elsewhere, there are at least two shades of the 

 flesh of eggplant fruits, namely, the wdiite and the green with a 

 third group which embraces a mixture of the two. 



The white sorts, as "Round White" (2). "Long White" (29). 



