The Savannah Tribune

SOUNDS FISHY.

A horticulturist, George Snively, living at Sandy Grove, near Harrisburg, W. Va., is said to have succeeded in grafting a tomato stalk on a potato vine and having the plant reproduce itself, a feat that has never before been accomplished. The facts may be as reported in this case, but they sound decidedly fishy, and it would take ocular proof to convince the average man that the tubers from the potato vine on which this tomato stalk had been grafted would ever produce stalks that would bear tomatoes or that the seed from a tomato produced on the inserted tomato vine would ever develop a root system that would produce a murphy. If a potato blossom were cross fertilized with pollen from a tomato blossom a plant might be developed which would produce both tomatoes and tubers, but the chances seem dead against its ever being accomplished by a process of top grafting.