THE TOMATO.
FRUIT OR VEGETABLE ! A KNOTTY POINT. Should a tomato be classified as a fruit or a vegetable ? This point has been argued time and again. Discussing this point, “The Fruitgrower” points out that a judge df one o'f the city courts, in America gave a ruling in 1915, so far as the tomato is concerned, that may be accepted as safe and correct. Arrested for selling “vegetables” in such a. manner and at such a time as to violate a local ordinance, a woman pleaded that it was tomatoes that she was retailing, and a tomato was a fruit, not a vegetable.
The judge, ruled in her favour, quoting as the basis of his. judgment from Joseph Y. Bergen’s “Foundations o'f Botany,” which states : “A fruit is the ripened ovary of a flowering plant with its contents; and whatever plants are consolidated or intimately connected/with it.” A fe.w illustrations may help to elucidate this statement. A tomato, cucumber., apple, pear, peach, orange, and the like, ami the “plum” of the potato are all fruits, because they are composed of the ripened ovaries of flowering plants aud surrounding flesh.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5081, 28 January 1927, Page 4
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190THE TOMATO. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5081, 28 January 1927, Page 4
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