Big'Things of the West 



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Courtesy of the Scientific American Supplement 



A Giant Californian Potato Vine 



Pasadena many remarkable examples of 

 large growth are seen, one being a po- 

 tato, which was trained to grow upon a 

 trellis and assumed the form of a lusty 

 vine over twelve feet high, producing 

 an extraordinary number of potatoes. 

 Some of the photographs of fields of 



pumpkins taken in the fall in Southern 

 California might well be considered 

 open to suspicion, so enormous are the 

 productions. One pumpkin exhibited 

 by James F. Stewart & Co. in I,os 

 Angeles was so huge that a calf was 

 held in the interior while a photog- 



