Curious Results of Plant Grafting.
Mr A. W. Button of the great seed establishment at Reading has lately described in the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society a num* ber of interesting experiments made with tomato and potato plants, these two being botanically related to one another. A potato tuber was planted, and when it had attained the height of a few inches above the soil, the stem was out off and a tomato graft was connected to it. As a result the composite plant produced a crop of potatoes at the roots, while the foliage above ground bore a crop of tomatoes, nourished by the potato roots. The process was then reversed, a potato graft being intro* duced upon tomato stalks. Tdb tomato roots did not produce pota. toes, but the potato plant above ground first threw out potato flowers and berries, and afterwards produced tubers from the axils of the leaves and stems.
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Manawatu Herald, 22 July 1897, Page 2
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155Curious Results of Plant Grafting. Manawatu Herald, 22 July 1897, Page 2
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