Burpee’s 
Black Beauty 
Eggplant 
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- 
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 gardener; suitable for 
freezing. Tender and tasty at all stages of growth. 
Pkt. 25¢; 14 oz. 60¢; oz. $1.05; 1% lb. $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, 
comrfact growth, and bear many large, elongated, glossy, dark pur- 
ple fruits tapering toward the stem. The fruits are of good quality 
and held well above the ground. Somewhat resistant to fruit rot 
and blight. Pkt. 15¢; 14 oz. 65¢; oz. $1.10; 14 Ib. $3.50 
421 Ft. Myers Market 80 days. Long, oval fruits of deep pur- 
ple color, extremely smooth skin and high gloss. Of considerable 
resistance to disease and excessive heat. Tall growing, the upright 
plants bearing their fruits over a long period and well above the 
429 New Hampshire™70 days. Early, low bush type, deep 
purple, oval-shaped eggplant with smooth skin; bred especially for 
short season areas. Lower fruits touch the ground. 
Pkt. 15¢; 14 0z. 65¢; oz. $1.10; 14 Ib. $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 with fruits near or on 
ground. Pkt. 15¢; 14 oz. 70¢; oz. $1.25; 14 Ib. $4.00 
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 asa salad, but may be cooked 
and served with butter sauce or grated cheese; 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 
finely cut or laciniated, giving the plants a feathery appearance. They area 
rich green color but readily blanch to an appetizing creamy white in the 
center; crisp and ten- 
der. Makes an excel- 
lent salad of fine flavor. 
Plants form a rosette, 
full in center; measure 
16 to 18 in. across 
when full grown. 
Pkt. 15¢; oz. 35¢; 
14 Ib. $1.00; 
VY |b. $1.90 
the soil. Pkt. 15¢; 1% 0z. 70¢; oz. $1.25; 1% Ib. $4.00 
Pee ie urled End ve 
432 White Curled 70 days. Leaves are light green, attractively curled and 
mossed with broad ribs slightly tinged with rose; the dense centers are easily 
bianched to pure white. They have a most delicious, crisp, refreshing flavor. 
Plants are handsome in appearance and grow 12 to 15 in. in diameter. 
Pkt. 15¢; oz. 35¢; 14 Ib. $1.00; 1% lb. $1.90 
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. Heart is very deep, well-blanched, creamy white of thick, buttery tex- 
ture. The slightly twisted leaves may be cooked like spinach or used in soups 
and stews. Pkt. 10¢; oz. 30¢; 1% lb. 90¢; 14 lb. $1.65 
438 Deep Heart or Improved Full Heart @ 70 days. Improved 
Batavian of upright growth with a deeper, fuller and more compact heart; 
earlier in maturity. Large, thick, dark green leaves with slightly curled edges. 
Forms an extra large, well filled heart which readily blanches itself to clear 
creamy yellow; no need to tie up the leaves. Widely grown for home and market. 
Pkt. 15¢; oz. 35¢; 1% lb. $1.00; 14 Ib. $1.90 
Deep Heart or Improved Full Heart 
Batavian Endive 
84 . . W. ATLEE BURPEE CO., Seed Growers 
