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Bronze Medal 1944 
A new attractive, high quality, good shipping variety 
which has smooth dark green fruits with blunt ends, 9-9! 
66 days 
inches long. Its small seed cavity makes it an excellent slicing 
variety. 
Pickling Varieties 
NATIONAL PICKLING 54-56 days 
This variety was originally developed by the National 
Pickle Packers Association and is the best all-around pickler. 
The pickles are dark green, cylindrical, and are blocky at 
both ends in all stages of growth. 
BOSTON PICKLING 58-60 days 
A standard black spine pickler, early, with slightly tapered 
fruits. Not as uniform a cropper as National Pickle. 
2 -EGGIPPANT2: 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HYBRID 
Silver Medal 1939 
This very early highly productive egg plant is a little 
68-73 days 
smaller than Black Beauty which it resembles, but ideal size 
for table use. It is the earliest large fruited Egg Plant. 
BLACK BEAUTY 80-85 days 
The most popular variety and the kind grown most ex- 
tensively by market gardeners. The fruit is large and hand- 
some and of a deep rich dark purple color. The plants are 
of robust growth and are very prolific, bearing 4 to 6 fruits 
on each bush. Our stock is early, ripening large crops before 
frost. 
FORT MYERS MARKET 85-90 days 
The plants are of the high bush type, producing very tall 
vigorous growth. The fruits are intense purple black, long 
egg shape without neck, smooth, very glossy, excellent type 
for shipping from the South. 
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FLORIDA HIGH BUSH 85-90 days 
This is a very heavy yielding stock. The plants are vig- 
orous, tall and upright in growth, holding all the fruit well 
off the ground, thus preventing rot. They resist drought, 
blight and wet weather better than most other varieties. 
The fruits are elongated, cylindrical in shape, and of a dark 
purplish color. 
EARLY LONG PURPLE 75-80 days 
Extra early, bearing slender, pear-shaped fruits 6 to 7 
inches long, dark purple in color. It is chiefly used as an early 
market variety. 
MANATEE SPECIAL 87-92 days 
Grown in the South for shipping, the fruits are dark pur- 
ple, long egg shape, on plants 34-40 inches tall, with large 
leaves which give good protection. The fruit is borne high. 
NEW YORK SPINELESS (Improved Long Purple) 
85-90 days 
- Fairly popular home garden and market type. The fruits 
are broad oval to blunt egg shape and of very good qual- 
ity. The plants are 30-36 inches high and bear 4-6 fruits. 
Black Beauty Egg Plant 
