TOMATO GRAFTED ON POTATO 



H. E. Zimmerman. 



ALL students of botany know that the potato and the 

 tomato belong to the same family of plants. Though 

 this is true it is not easy to graft one on the other. However, 

 Mr. George H. Hursh, of Shiremanston, Pa., has succeeded 

 in performing this botanical stunt. To produce such a result, 

 he got a late potato plant nicely started in a pot. When about 

 ten inches high he cut it off eight inches above the ground 

 and inserted therein a terminal shoot of a vigorous growing 

 tomato plant, using a cleft graft about an inch and a half long 

 for this purpose. After the scion was inserted the cleft was 

 tied together and the whole wrapped with moist sphagnum 

 moss until united. As a result of this union, half dozen fair 

 sized potatoes grew on the roots and eleven medium sized 

 tomatoes grew on the tomato stalk. 



