potato pollen only. He next produced what he called "aerial potatoes"
of very peculiar twisted shapes from a potato vine grafted on a
Ponderosa or large tomato plant. Then reversing this operation he
grafted the same kind of tomato plant upon the same kind of potato
plant and produced underground a strange-looking potato with marked
tomato characteristics. He saw he was on the right road to the
production of a new variety of vegetable, but before experimenting
further along this line he crossed two distinct species of tomatoes
and obtained a most ornamental plant, different from the parent stems,
about twelve inches high and fifteen inches across with large unusual
leaves and producing clusters of uniform globular fruit, the whole
giving a most pleasing and unique appearance. The fruit were more
palatable than the ordinary tomatoes, had better nutritive qualities
and were more suitable for preserving and canning.

Very pleased with this result he went back to his experiments with the
potato-tomato, and succeeded in producing the most wonderful and unique
fruit in the world, one which by a happy combination of the two names,
he has aptly called the pomato. It may be considered as the evolution
of a potato seed-ball. It first appears as a tiny green ball on the
potato top and as the season progresses it gradually enlarges and
finally develops into a fruit about the size and shape of the ordinary
tomato. The flesh is white and the marrow, which contains but a few
tiny white seeds, is exceedingly pleasant to the taste, possessing a
combination of several different fruit flavors, though it cannot be
identified with any one. It may be eaten either raw or cooked after
the manner of the common tomato. In either case it is most palatable,
but especially so when cooked. It is exceptionally well adapted to
preserving purposes.