274 Gardening 
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Fics. 155 and 156. At the left, setting out pot-grown peppers; at the right, 
harvesting the ‘“‘eggs”’ from eggplants. 
poorly or may even die during the summer, a late crop 
may be raised. 
In the home garden it is best to grow plants from 18 to 
30 inches apart. Each plant should be tied up to one or 
more stakes as a support, and the side branches cut away 
as they develop, leaving the main stem and possibly two 
or three lateral ones to develop. After several clusters 
of fruit are formed on a stalk, it is a good plan to pinch 
off the growing tip. 
Earliana, Bonny Best, and Chalk’s Early Jewel are 
perhaps the best of the early sorts. The Stone, Acme, 
and Ponderosa are somewhat later, but yield heavily. 
