Burpee’s EGGPLANT 
May be cooked in various ways. The fruits are at their best 
edible stage when the skin has attained a high gloss. Use when 
young, at which time the seeds will be small and hardly noticeable. 
Keep fruits picked off as they become ready and plants should bear 
until frost. A rich, sandy, warm soil produces the best plants and 
yields the highest number of fruits. Seed should be started in a 
hotbed, or indoors in shallow boxes or seed-pans, 8 to 9 weeks be- 













Burpee’s Our strain is very 
Blach Beauit uniform and of an 
aia gy excellent dark color 
ENDIVE 
For early use, sow seed in the open ground as soon as it can be worked; 
for main crop, make two more sowings about a month apart. In early 
stages of growth, leaves may have a pungent taste but later the inner 
leaves blanch and become sweet and tender. Used principally as a salad; 
often used for garnishing. A pkt. will sow about 20 ft. of row; 1 oz. 100 ft. 
430 Green Curled or Giant Fringed Oyster 65 days. Leaves 
are finely cut or laciniated, giving the plants a feathery appearance. They 
are a rich green color but readily blanch to an appetizing creamy white 
in the center; crisp 
f and tender. Makes an 
excellent salad of fine 
flavor. Plants meas- 
ure 16 to 18 in. across 
when full grown. 
Pkt. 10¢; oz. 35¢; 
1/4 Ib. 95¢; 
Vy Ib. $1.75 
Deep Heart or Improved Full Heart 
Batavian Endive 
fore the time to set the plants out in the garden. When seedlings 
are about 3 in. high, plant singly into small pots, setting the plants 
in the open when all danger of frost is past and the soil has become 
thoroughly warm. A pkt. of seed will produce about 100 plants; 
1 oz. 2000 plants. Days mentioned in descriptions Tepresent the 
average time required from the setting of the plants in the her 
until the first fruits are ready for table use. 
420 Burpee’s Black Beauty©O > 
73 days. The rich, deep purplish black fruits grow to an 
enormous size, but may be used while small. When fully 
developed, they are blunt and broad at the blossom end, 
weigh several pounds each and are free from spines or 
thorns. Suitable for freezing. Very productive. Valuable 
for market and home gardens. Holds its color well. 
Pkt. 25¢; 
VY, oz. 75¢; oz. $1.35; 1/4 lb. $4.25 
419 Burpee Hybrid © 70 days. True first genera- 
tion hybrid of outstanding qualities for home and market 
gardens. The plant is tall, tree-like, semi-spreading in habit, 
vigorous and produces continuously many fruits which are 
oval, medium-sized, and of a good dark purple. Most fruits 
do not touch the ground. More resistant to drought and 
disease than any commercial variety. Pkt. (15 seeds) 35¢; 
2 pkts. 65¢; 3 pkts. 90¢; 5 pkts. $1.45 
423 Florida Highbush 80 days. Plants are of strong, 
upright growth, and bear many large, elongated, dark 
purple fruits tapering towards the stem. Held well above the 
ground. Somewhat resistant to fruit rot and blight. 
Pkt. 15¢; 4 0z. 65¢; oz. $1.10; 
421 Ft. Myers Market 80 days. Long, oval fruits of 
deep purple color and extremely smooth skin. Of consider- 
able resistance to disease and excessive heat. Tall growing, 
the upright plants bearing their fruits well above the ground. 
Pkt. 15¢; 1%40z. 70¢; oz. $1.25; 14 lb. $4.00 
429 New Hampshire 70 days. Early, low bush type, 
purple, oval-shaped eggplant recommended especially for 
short season areas. Lower fruits touch the ground. 
Pkt. 15¢; 14 0z.65¢; oz. $1.10; 1% Ib. $3.50 
422 New York Improved Spineless 76 days. En- 
tirely spineless, large purple eggplant whose fruits are broad, 
oval and hold their deep glossy black-purple color for a long 
time. The plants are quite spreading and low branching. 
Pkt. 15¢; 140z. 70¢; oz. $1.25; 1% lb. $4.00 

Chaer Curled Endive 
432 White Curled 70 days. Leaves are light green, attractively curled and 
mossed; the dense centers are easily blanched to pure white. They have a most 
delicious, crisp, refreshing flavor. Plants grow 12 to 15 in. in diameter. 
Pkt. 10¢; oz. 35¢; 1%4 Ib. 95¢; Y Ib. $1.75 
436 Broad Leaved Batavian 90 days. (Full Heart Strain). A popular 
Escarolle with large, broad leaves forming immense round plants up to 16 in. 
across. Can be blanched creamy white like curled endive; the toothed, slightly 
twisted leaves may be cooked like spinach or used in soups and stews. ~ 
Pkt. 10¢; oz. 35¢; %41b.95¢; 1% Ib. $1.75 
438 Deep Heart or Improved Full Heart © 70 days. Improved 
Batavian of upright growth with a deeper, 
earlier in maturity. Large, thick, dark green leaves with slightly curled edges. 
Forms a medium-large head which readily blanches itself to light yellow; 
no need to tie up the leaves. Widely grown by home and market gardeners. 
fuller and more compact heart; 
Pkt. 15¢; oz. 40¢; 14 ib. $1.10; 14 ib. $2.00 
440 Cos Type Batavian 100 days. The young plants resemble Full 
Heart Batavian but the leaves are much broader and rounder. As plants de- 
velop they become erect and look like Cos lettuce: Hearts blanch to a clear 
80 . . W. ATLEE BURPEE CO., Seed Growers 
yellow and make the most appetizing tender salad. All-America Winner. 
Pkt. 15¢; oz. 40¢; 1% Ib. $1.10; 1% Ib. $2.00 
1), Ib. $3.50 
