Autumn’s low voiced breezes play.

Nowhere sweeter walk or rarer

Than my path beside the stream.

There I love to stroll in autumn,

There to loiter and to dream.

—Frank Farrington.

EGG PLANT FRUIT.
(Solanum esculentum).

EGG PLANT.
(Solanum esculentum L.)

The Egg-plant, also known as bringal, aubergine, egg-apple and mad-apple, is an herbaceous plant belonging to the Nightshade family (Solananæ), therefore kin to the potato and tomato. It is a tender annual, readily killed by the early frosts. It has rather large, simple, somewhat incised leaves. The fruits are large, egg-shaped, tomato-like in structure, hence berries.