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plants as to potatoes. Spraying with Paris green 

 or arsenate of lead is effectual before the fruit 

 has formed but hand picking is more satisfactory 

 and where only a few plants are grown for family 

 use, quite as practical. It is not the mature 

 beetle that eats the leaves but the young beetles 

 that hatch from the mass of yellow eggs laid on 

 the under side of the leaves, so at the first ap- 

 pearance of the old bugs search should be made 

 for the mass of eggs and these as well as the 

 parent beetle destroyed ; by this means no beetles 

 can get a start. It is always good practice to 

 avoid, as far as possible, the use of poisonous in- 

 secticides in the kitchen garden; while their use 

 may do no harm on vegetables that have not set 

 their fruit, there is always a tendency to grow 

 careless in their use and to continue it after the 

 safety zone has been passed. 



New York egg plant is the standard variety 

 for all but the northern states ; it is of the highest 

 type, spineless and of a rich, purple color, large 

 and borne in abundance ; it is not as early as Black 



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