Burpee’s 
Black Beauty 
Eggplant 
Burpee’s EGGPLANT 
May be cooked in various ways. The truits 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- 
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 represent the 
average time required from the setting of the plants in the garden 
until the first fruits are ready for table use. 
420 Burpee’s Black Beauty© 
73 days. The rich, deep purplish black, smooth 
fruits retain their color a long time and 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. Very productive. Valu- 
able for market and home; suitable for freezing. 
Tender and tasty at all stages of growth. 
Pkt. 15¢; 1% oz. 60¢; oz. $1.05; 1, Ib. $3.15 
419 Burpee Hybrid © 70 days. True first generation 
(Fi) 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 and high gloss. 
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 toward the stem. The 
fruits are held well above the ground. Somewhat resistant to fruit rot and blight. 
Pkt. 15¢; 14 0z. 65¢; oz. $1.10; 1% lb. $3.50 
421 Ft. Myers Miarket 80 days. Long, oval fruits of deep purple color and 
extremely smooth skin. Of considerable resistance to disease and excessive heat. 
Tall growing, the upright plants bearing their fruits well above the ground. 
Pkt. 15¢; 144 0z. 70¢; oz. $1.25; 1% lb. $4.00 
429 New Hampshire 70 days. Early, low bush type, purple, oval-shaped 
eggplant bred especially for short season areas. Lower fruits touch the ground. 
Pkt. 15¢; 1% oz. 65¢; oz. $1.10; 1% lb. $3.50 
422 New York Improved Spineless 76 days. Entirely 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¢; 14 0z. 70¢; oz. $1.25; 1% Ib. $4.00 
ENDIVE 
For early use, sow seed in the open ground as soon as it can be worked; for main 
: crop and all-season yield, make two more sowings about a month apart. In early 
ey stages of growth, leaves may have a pungent taste but later the inner leaves blanch 
Deep Heart or Improved Full Heart and become sweet and tender. Used principally as a salad; often used for garnish- 

Batavian Endive ing. A pkt. will sow about 20 ft. of row; 1 oz. 100 ft. 
ae 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 and tender. Makes an excellent salad of fine flavor. Plants 
measure 16 to 18 in. across when full grown in a good rich garden soil. 
Pkt. 10¢; oz. 30¢; 14 lb. 90¢; 1% lb. $1.75 
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¢; %41b.95¢; 1% Ib. $1.75 
436 Broad Leaved Batavian 90 days. (Full Heart Strain.) A popu- 
lar Escarolle with large, broad leaves forming immense round plants up to 
16 in. across. Can be blanched creamy white like curled endive; the slightly 
twisted leaves may be cooked like spinach or used in soups and stews. 
Pkt. 10¢; oz. 30¢; %4 Ib. 90¢; 1% Ib. $1.65 
438 Deep Heart or Improved Full Heart © 70 days. Improved 
; Batavian of upright growth with a deeper, fuller and more compact heart; 
Green Curled Endive 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 for home and market. 
80 .. W. ATLEE BURPEE CO., Seed Growers Pkt. 15¢; oz. 35¢; %4 Ib. $1.00; 1% Ib. $1.90 

