AUBERGINE (diminutive of Fr. auberge, a variant of alberge, a

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• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of

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• PEACH
• PEACH, CHARLES WILLIAM (1800-1886)

peach), or

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• EGG (O.E. aeg, cf. Ger. Ei, Swed. aegg, and prob. Gr. u,ov, Lat. ovum)
• EGG, AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD (1816-1863)

EGG PLANT (Solanum melongena,

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• VAR

var. ovigerum)  , a tender annual widely cultivated in the warmer parts of the earth, and in France and Italy, for the sake of its fruits, which are eaten as a vegetable . The seed should be sown early in February in a warm pit, where the plants are grown till shifted into 8-in. or ro-in. pots, in well-manured soil . Liquid manure should be given occasionally while the fruit is swelling; about four fruits are sufficient for one plant . The French growers sow them in a brisk heat in December, or early in January, and in March plant them out four or eight in a hot-bed with a bottom heat of from 6o° to 68°, the sashes being gradually more widely opened as the season advances, until at about the end of May they may be taken off . The two main branches which are allowed are pinched to induce laterals, but when the fruits are set all young shoots are taken off in order to increase their size . The best variety is the large purple, which produces oblong fruit, sometimes reaching 6 or 7 in. in length and to or 12 in. in circumference . The fruit of the ordinary form almost exactly resembles the egg of the domestic fowl . It is also grown as an ornamental plant, for covering walls or trellises; especially the black-fruited kind .