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Winter gourd 
Yelloiv Custard Marrow 
Yellow Elector'* Cap . . . 
Yellow Pattypan 
Yellow Summer Scallop 
Yokohama 
Yokohama gourd 
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2G : 
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26 
26 
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EGG-PLANT. 
The varieties are few in number, and generally clearly denned. 
They are very readily separated into four classes lay the color of the 
ripe fruits. The two scarlet varieties described are distinct from the 
others in having white flowers, as well as in the form of the fruits.- 
They are also quite distinct from each other, each of them having' 
been described as a separate botanical species. 
Two of the classes may be sub-divided with reference to the form 
of the fruits. 
The classification adopted is as follows : 
1. Fruit purple. 
A. Fruits roundish, or ovoid. Nos. 1^, inch 
B. Fruits distinctly oblong. Nos. 5-7, inch 
2. Fruits ( ripe ) distinctly striped with purple and greenish 
yellow. No. 8. 
3. Fruits white or cream colored. 
A. Fruits roundish or ovoid. No. 9. 
B. Fruits distinctly oblong. No. 10. 
4. Fruits scarlet. Nos. 11-12. 
1. Fruits purple. 
A. Fruits roundish, or ovoid. 
No. 1. BLACK PEKIN, Brill; Hen.,/83; Thor., '86; Veg. Gar.; Vil. 
Syn. Fr., Aubergine noire de Pekin, Vil. : A. rond de Chine, VIL. : Ger., 
schwarze Pekin Eier-frucht, A. de CI. 
Fruit nearly spherical, glossy blackish purple, skin green where 
covered by the calyx lobes; well developed samples 6 in. in diameter; 
plant 2 to 21 ft. high; foliage rather dark purple, leaves large, nearly 
flat, margin coarsely but irregularly ^and roundly notched, borders 
nearly plain, leaves downy below; the [younger ones purple on the 
Description of the Varieties. 
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