POTATOES WITH A STRANGE 

 HISTORY 



These are potatoes grown on a vine 

 on whose stalk a tomato top had been 

 ingrafted. The potato leaves were 

 unable, apparently , to supply just the 

 right kind of material in abundance for 

 the making of the best varieties of 

 potatoes, but they made a creditable 

 effort nevertheless. Considering that 

 no tomato vine had ever grown a potato 

 at all before, the result might be said 

 to be notable. These were produced 

 about 1880. 



