Mid-Season Vegetables 



Beauty, long a favorably known sort, which is 

 about twelve days earlier; Very Early Dwarf 

 Purple is still earlier and Black Pekin is another 

 good sort. In the northern states the earliest 

 variety should be planted, but the egg plant has 

 one remarkable characteristic — for a plant so ten- 

 der in its early stages it seems, when fully grown, 

 almost immune to cold and early frost, and I 

 have often gathered unharmed fruit after severe 

 frost had cut most everything else in the garden. 

 Throwing some loose stuff — clover hay, corn fod- 

 der or weeds — over the plants on a cold night will 

 usually save them and a spell of warm weather 

 that usually follows the first hard frosts may 

 bring on inmiature fruit to a usable size. It re- 

 quires about five months from the sowing of the 

 seed to produce usable fruit so it will readily be 

 seen that it is important to start the seed in the 

 hotbed, greenhouse or in the house and to take 

 every precaution to grow them on rapidly without 

 any check. 



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