can Large Purple, if not the same, is but an improved form of
this variety.

SCARLET-FRUITED EGG-PLANT. _Hov. Mag._

A highly ornamental variety, introduced from Portugal. The plant attains
the height of three feet, with leaves about six inches long. In general
appearance, it resembles the Common Egg-plant; but the fruit, which is
about the size of a hen's egg, is of a beautiful scarlet.

It is rarely if ever used for food, but is principally cultivated for
its peculiar, richly colored, and ornamental fruit, which makes a fine
garnish.

The variety is late, and comparatively tender. The seeds should be
started early in a hot-bed, and the plants grown in a warm and sheltered
situation.

WHITE EGG-PLANT.

Fruit milk-white, egg-shaped, varying from three to five inches in
length, and from two inches and a half to three inches and a half in
diameter.

It is the earliest, hardiest, and most productive of all varieties. The
plants frequently produce five or six fruits each; but the first formed
are generally the largest.

If sown in the open ground early in May, the plants will often perfect a
portion of their fruit; but they are most productive when started in a
hot-bed.

The fruit is sometimes eaten cooked in the manner of the Purple
varieties, but is less esteemed.

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MARTYNIA.

Unicorn Plant. _Gray._ Martynia proboscidea.

[Illustration: The Martynia.]

A hardy, annual plant, with a strong, branching stem two feet and a half
or three feet high. The leaves are large, heart-shaped, entire or
undulated, downy, viscous, and of a peculiar, musk-like odor when
bruised or roughly handled; the flowers are large, bell-shaped, somewhat
two-lipped, dull-white, tinged or spotted with yellow and purple, and
produced in long, leafless racemes, or clusters; the seed-pods are
green, very downy or hairy, fleshy, oval, an inch and a half in their
greatest diameter, and taper to a long, comparatively slender, incurved
horn, or beak. The fleshy, succulent character of the pods is of short
duration: they soon become fibrous, the elongated beak splits at the
point, the two parts diverge, the outer green covering falls off, and
the pod becomes black, shrivelled, hard, and woody. The seeds are
large, black, wrinkled, irregular in form, and retain their germinative
properties three years.

_Sowing and Cultivation._--The Martynia is of easy cultivation. As the
plants are large and s