. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. d to a light cellar for safe wintering in ab-sence of the greenhouse. scale, gives a good idea of the appearance ofthe plant and fruit. Solanum integrifollum (Poir), says , is sold as the Chinese Scarlet andOrnamental Egg plant, and it is probablythe one which has been lately distributed asa great novelty under the name of TomatoEgg plant. It goes under the name of Sol-atniin coccincum. Its nativity appears tobe wholly unknown. Itis probably have called it the Ethi
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. d to a light cellar for safe wintering in ab-sence of the greenhouse. scale, gives a good idea of the appearance ofthe plant and fruit. Solanum integrifollum (Poir), says , is sold as the Chinese Scarlet andOrnamental Egg plant, and it is probablythe one which has been lately distributed asa great novelty under the name of TomatoEgg plant. It goes under the name of Sol-atniin coccincum. Its nativity appears tobe wholly unknown. Itis probably have called it the Ethiopian Egg plant. It is a coarse plant, three feet high, withlarge lobed leaves, and the stems, petiolesand midribs armed with strong and verysharp spines a half-inch long. The smallwhite flowers are usually borne in clusters The bright English Irises are now, .Tune 12,at their best; they are so fine and inexpen-sive that they deserve to be better Spanish Irises come earlier, but are notnearly so handsome. Iris Kasmpferi I finda shy bloomer, giving now its first budwith its third summers The Tomato Egg Plant. Two or three ago a novelty was in-troduced under the name, Tomato EggPlant. Of course we tested it, and foundit curious and interesting enough, but with-out practical value. It has the general habitof growth of the ordinary Egg plants, morecompact, if anything, and easy to bugs seem to be especially fond of it,for they will devour not only the foliage,but the stalks and fruits as well. Of thelatter they leave nothing btit the seeds, ofwhich the fruit is almost entirely filled. In a recent bulletin of the Cornell Univer-sity station, Prof. Bailey de-scribes and pictures the various species andvarieties of Egg plant as tested at the stationgrounds. The illustration of the TomatoEgg plant, here reproduced on a smaller THE TOMATO EGG PLANT. of two to six. The fruit is small, rarelymuch exceeding two inches in diameter,bright sc
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