. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. SOLANUM States from Guatemala in 1882 by Gustav Eisen. A full review of the history and botany was made in Cornell Exp. Bull. 37 (ISai). The fruit is aromatic, tender and juicy, and in taste suggests an acid eggplant. In a drawer or box, the fruit may be kept till midw
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. SOLANUM States from Guatemala in 1882 by Gustav Eisen. A full review of the history and botany was made in Cornell Exp. Bull. 37 (ISai). The fruit is aromatic, tender and juicy, and in taste suggests an acid eggplant. In a drawer or box, the fruit may be kept till midwinter. In the North the seasons are too short to allow the fruit to mature in the open, unless the plants are started very early. The I'epino is properly a cool-season plant, and when gniwn in puts in a cool or intermediate house will set its fruits freely. It is readily propagated by means of cuttings of the growing shoots. The plant will with- stand a little frost. 6. Helong^na, Linn. {S. insinum, Linn.). Erect and much-branched herb or subshrub, 2-3 ft. tall, woolly or scurfy, spiny: Ivs. large and heavy, ovate or oblong- ovate, becoming nearly glabrous above but remaining densely tomentose beneath, shallowly sinuate-lobed: fls. large, mostly in clusters, the calyx woolly and often spiny, the spreading, deeply lobed, purplish corolla 1 in. or more across: fr. a large berry. India. Var. escuWntum. Nees (S. esculhitum and S. ovUjerum, Dun.). Common Eggplant. Guinea Squash. Auber- gine. Pigs. 750-753, 830, Vol. II. Cultivated for its large fruits, which are usually oblong, obovoid shape in form, and purple, white, yellowish or striped differs from the wild plant in ' ' " mostly solitary fls., and much larger and more variable fruits. There are two well-marked sub varieties: var. serpentlmun, Bailey (S. serpeii^MHrn, Desf ) Snake Eggplant. Fr greath elongated and curled at the end ^ssum,Bailey D\xai f PuKPLE Eggplant. Fig 7 t Plant low and diffuse, man^ ' t the bran
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