EGG PLAKT. 



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severe "weatlier into some fresh earth, in the cellar. The plants 

 should be taken up with a ball of earth about the roots, and after 

 planting in the cellar, it is well to moisten the earth with a little 

 water. 



Geezn" Cueled. — This is the best sort, hardy, tender, and 

 crisp. 



EGG PLANT. 



Fig. 60 is an 

 engraving of an 

 Egg Plant with 

 fruit. This is a 

 very tender vege- 

 table, requiring a 

 long season, and 

 can be raised in 

 OUT climate only 

 at considerable 

 pains -taking. It 

 can not be made 

 with us a crop of 

 much profit, and 

 will be grown in 

 small quantities by market-gardeners near our large cities, and 

 by those who have such a partiality for it that they are willing 

 to take the requisite trouble. It requires a longer season to 

 perfect its fruit than the Tomato, and the young plants are yet 

 more sensitive to chilly winds and spring frosts. The seed 

 should be sown in a hotbed in March, or in a flower-pot or box 

 of earth, and started in the kitchen window, in the same manner 

 as Tomato plants are started, and treated much in the same way, 

 except that even more care must be used to keep them from 

 being chilled, especially when they are transplanted into the open 

 ground, for if they get badly chiUed they seem to get over it very- 



Fig. 60. 



