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Show Tomato-Potato Is Latest Wonder in German Horticulture NEW YORK, Oct. 23 A tomato-potato tomato-potato is the latest "wonder" of German Ger-man horticulture according to German newspapers received here- According J to their accounts, tomatoes and pota- i toes have been raised on one plant, j On a strong branch of a potato plant , was grafted a shoot of a tomato plant. After a process of hardening which required one month the grafted plant was set out in the open. The two branches then thrived as one. From sixteen such plants it is stated stat-ed 42 pounds of tomatoes and 25 pounds of potatoes were gathered. The plants require only a rich loose, warm soil, much sunshine and ordinary care. German papers say the achievement is, not astonishing as the tomato and the potato belong to the same plant i species, that of solanum. |