2 3 2 MISCELLANEOUS WARM PLANTS. 



Round Purple and Long White were making a very 

 slow and weak growth. 



A plant of Early Dwarf Purple that was photographed 

 May 29 is shown in Fig. 83. It was bearing at this time 

 21 fruits of varying sizes, and appeared to be strong 

 enough to mature fruits from buds that were still form- 

 ing. The larger fruits were fully 4 inches in diameter, 

 and nearly 6 inches long. They were not removed as 

 soon as grown, as should be done in order to get as 



Earlv Dwarf Purple eggplant in winter. 



large a yield as possible, and for this reason the product 

 of the plant is the more remarkable. All the fruits did 

 not attain the size mentioned above, for the crop was 

 too heavy for the plant to mature it properly; neither 

 were all the plants of this variety equally prolific, al- 

 though their yield in many cases closely approached 

 that shown in the illustration. This variety proved to 

 be by far the most promising of those grown for forcing 

 purposes, and it appears to be capable of producing 



