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Show Disease-Free Tomatoes Plant breeders are trying to develop de-velop more tomato varieties resistant re-sistant to disease. Breeding experiments, ex-periments, using a disease-resistant form with unpalatable ruU. land a disease-susceptible form with palatable fruit, have yielded a resistant hybrid with palatable fruit So far only two species of tomatoes have been used for this purpose. The four remaining species spe-cies are now being used for the first time as the result as an expedition ex-pedition to South America by plant explorers of the Bureau of Plant Industry. o Lamp posts in Shenandoah, Iowa, are decorated with hanging baskets of flowers. They are watered wa-tered from a water wagon each day. |