44 Eggplant 



A check in the growth of the eggplant may result in 

 a total failure in fruit. The plants should be 

 watched closely to protect them from insects and 

 should not have other plants set among them to 

 rob them of food. They need quite a good supply 

 of fertilizer. 



Eggplants can be grown to advantage in pots, and 

 if the pot is a large one and only one plant to a 

 pot a very high grade of fruit can be produced. 



Eggplants should not be set in the garden until all 

 danger of frost is over. It is usually not safe to 

 transplant the young plants from hotbed to garden 

 until the middle of May except in the far South, 

 where everything has an earlier season. 



The land on which eggplant is grown should not 

 contain unfermented vegetable matter of any sort, 

 and all manure should be thoroughly composted 

 before it is applied to the soil. 



Arsenate of lead will prove very effective when 

 getting rid of the potato beetle on the eggplant 

 bushes. 



