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12. "Long Puri)]c." This variety differs very little from the last, excepting in 

 the purple color of stem and fruit and a darker green, foliage. It is fairly early. 



13. ^"Livingston's Mammoth Purple." This is in the group of the "medium tall 

 plants," with green foliage and large, oval, purple fruits. It was not productive, 

 as the record in the preceding table shows. 



14. ''Fordhook Improved." The seed of this sort failed. 



15. "Mammoth Pearl." Of the "medium tall" group, with light green foliage 

 and large, oval, white fruits that were late in maturing. The leaves are more 

 deeply lobed than in other sorts. There were but few specimens. 



16. ''New White Pearl." This resembles No. 15, with somewhat larger plants 

 and fruits. The latter showed a tendency to turn yellow upon maturing, in this 

 approaching the "Black Snake" and the "Dwarfs." 



17. "Neic Excelsior Tree." This is, as its name suggests, one of the tall 

 group, with long, spreading branches, bearing light green foliage and oval fruits 

 of medium size, and of a light purple color. It is a late and somewhat spiny 

 sort. It is near to No. 7. 



18. "New York Improved." A member of the "medium tall" group, with 

 light green foliage and good-sized, oval, purple fruits. It is medium early and 

 spiny. 



19. "New York Improved Purple." This seems to be the same as No. 18. 



20. "Pride of Sunni/side." This is not easily distinguished from the last two, 

 alongside of which it was grown. 



21. "Striped." This is a varietj' characterized by its very white fruits, with 

 the flesh nearly of the whiteness of the snow-apple. The plants are medium 

 tall, with close, upright habit of growth, foliage light green and the fruits long, 

 not large, and without more than the slightest indication of stripes. It is quite 

 spiny. 



22. "Purple Perfection." This did not differ materially from the "New York 

 Improved" group. There were but few plants and those made an indifferent 

 record. 



23. "Thornless Purple." This is a tall sort, much like No. 7, but the fruits 

 differ in the red-purple color. It was slow growing and among the late kinds, 

 with spines plentiful. 



24. "New White." This agreed in all points with No. 15, with fewer spines 

 and the fruits perhaps more slender. 



25. "Scarlet Chinese." This is added here because it is being bred with the 

 ordinary eggplants. It is a very distinct species and treated elsewhere under 

 the head of its hybrids. The plants are tall, woody and very spiny. The fruits 

 are produced in great numbers and are of such a durable nature that a string 

 of them hung in the greenhouse throughout the past winter reminded one 

 of red peppers, although the shape is flat and more like some tomatoes. 



Cross of "Long 'White '* npon "New^ York Improved." 



A block of thirty plant.-^, representing the third generation of the 



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cross of the ''Long White'' upon "Xow York Improved" ("[g")' 8"^^'® 



a great variety of phmts. They were all of medium size, with the 

 foliage light green and the leaves broad. Generally they fruited 

 early, but some individuals were quite late in coming into bearing. 



