By Mr. Andrew Mathews. 



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Round Purple Egg Plant. 

 Solatium esculentum ; a, baccis oblongo-teretibus, violaceis. Dunal. 

 Solatium pomiferum fructu oblongo. Caspar Bauhin. 

 Melongena ovata. Miller. 

 Aubergine violette ronde. Vilmorin. 



Melongene rouge a fruit rond. Noisette Manuel du Jardinier. 

 Mammoth Egg Plant. American Gardens. 



This variety grows from two to three feet in height ; it is 

 slightly downy and branching, and most generally tinged 

 with purple. The leaves are large, pubescent, oblong, repand, 

 the lobes irregular and rounded ; some of them have a few 

 scattered purple spines on the midribs. The flowers are large, 

 and pale purple, the calyx and peduncles being covered with 

 a few purple spines. The fruit is large, obovate, when mature 

 of a fine deep purple, about three inches in diameter at the 

 broadest part, and about four inches long ; the end obtuse, 

 and slightly indented in the apex. It occasionally varies in 

 its colour, being sometimes slightly striped or rayed with 

 yellowish-green on purple. It was received from New York 

 with the name of Mammoth Egg Plant. 



Long Purple Egg Plant. 



Solanum esculentum ; |3, baccis oblongo-teretibus apice recurvis purpurea, 



flavis aut cinereis. Dunal. 

 Solanum pomiferum fructu recurvo. Caspar Bauhin. 

 Melongena tereta. Miller. 

 Melongena incurva. Miller. 

 Aubergine violette longue. Vilmorin. 



Melongene rouge a fruit long. Noisette Manuel du Jardinier. 



This variety grows to the same height as the Round 

 Purple, and is subject to some variations in the colour of its 



