New Hampshire Hybrid 



Eggplant, the standard of 



earlies. 



EGGPLANT 



NEW HAMPSHIRE EGGPLANT 



One of the first horticultural plant- 

 breedhig projects at the New Hamp- 

 shire Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion was with the eggplant. The 

 variety called the Neiv Hampshire 

 Hybrid was developed by J. R. Hep- 

 ler from a cross between Extra Early 

 Dwarf Purple and Black Beauty. 

 Selections were made from this 

 cross for earliness, large, dark- 

 colored fruits, and productiveness 

 under the cool conditions of New 

 Hampshire. The New Hampshire 

 Hybrid eggplant is now widely 

 grown as the earliest eggplant of 



commercial quality. The present 

 tendency is to call it simply New 

 Hampshire, because it is a true 

 breeding variety and not a hybrid 

 sort, as that term is now used in the 

 seed trade. 



POPCORN 



POPINJAY POPCORN 



Popcorn breeding work at the 

 University of New Hampshire start- 

 ed with the crossing of Pinky, a 

 North Dakota-produced, pink-ker- 

 neled. high popping quality popcorn, 

 and Neiv Hampshire Pearl, a New 

 England round-seeded, extra early. 



Carnival Popcorn, a riot of color. 

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