A Hybrid Plant

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · May 3, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 18.

“A Frenchman, by process of grafting, has obtained a hybrid plant which produces tubers underground and tomatoes above. Such very intense cultivation seems to savor somewhat of the odious ‘sweating system.’ It points, however, to the possibility of largely increasing our food supply from the land already under cultivation by means of similar productive hybrids.”