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The Blue Lace Flower To Purchase Blue Lace Flower Seed Click This Link Six Rare, Exquisite Plants You May Not Have Tried In this newsletter, we are going to feature some plants that most of you do not have in your gardens and plants which are largely misunderstood, but plants which are easy to grow and will grow in most of the American hardiness zones. Each year you should try to grow something in your garden that you have never grown before. Some of these experiments will pleasantly surprise you; some will be disappointments. Given the sophistication of the people who routinely read this newsletter, I am sure that some of these seed varieties have been familiar, but I suspect that at least one or two of you will not have

The Eggplant - A Little History and Some Growing Instructions Eggplants originated in China and India and have been cultivated there for thousands of years. The Spanish Moors introduced the eggplant into southern and Eastern Europe where it became very popular. The early explorers of the New World introduced eggplant into the Americas in the 1500s, but the plant never caught on. For many years, Americans were suspicious of the plant because it belonged to the Nightshade family, of Deadly Nightshade fame. Eggplants, tomatoes and potatoes all belong to this family and many Americans thought the vegetables were poisonous. In the 1848 two varieties are listed Large Purple and Early Purple. They were described as egg plant or melongena as he called the plant in the following way,