486 NEW JEESEY AGRICULTUEAL COLLEGE 



The following is a preliminary classification of the above li?t of 

 eggplants : 



Plants Tall: 



Leaves Purple — 



Fruit slender, "Black Snake" (2). 

 Fruit round, "Black Pekin" (3). 

 Leaves Green — 



Fruit oval, "Excelsior Tree" (7). 



"Florida High Bush" (8). 

 "New Excelsior Tree" (17). 

 "Thornless Purple" (23). 

 Fruit long — 



White, ''Long White" (11). 

 Purple, "Long Purple" (12). 

 Plants Medium Tall: 

 Fruit Purple — 



Large, "Mammoth Purple" (13). 

 Medium, "Giant N. Y. Spineless" (9). 

 "Jersey Belle" (10). 

 "New York Improved" (18). 

 "New York Improved Purple" (19). 

 "Pride of Sunnyside" (20). 

 "Purple Perfection" (22). 

 Fruits White — 



Large, "Mammoth Pearl" (15) 



"New White Pearl" (16). 

 "New White" (24). 

 Small, "Striped" (21). 

 Plants Medium Short: 

 "Baltimore" (1). 

 "Black Beauty" (4). 

 Plants Dwarf: 



"Dwarf Purple" (5). 

 "Early Dwarf Oval" (6). 



Notes npon above Eggplants. 



An opportunity offered for the study of the above commercial sorts 

 of eggplants as grown in the same block of the Gardens, and rhe fol- 

 lowing notes are drawn from the record book for the year : 



1. "Baltimore." The plants are of a medium dwarf type with light green 

 foliage and giving medium large, oval purple fruits in small numbers. The 

 fruits soon decay without turning orange, as in the plants with purple foliage 

 like "Black Snake." and the true dwarfs (Nos. 5 and 6). The sort nearest to 

 it is the "Black Beauty" (4), from which it may perhaps be distinguished by a 

 lighter purple to the surface of the fruit. 



