Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — A Hybrid Corkscrew. [ARTICLE]

A Hybrid Corkscrew.

It is said that an Atchison genius has invented a vine called potamato, which bears potatoesunder the ground and tomatoes above ground. The idea is able, but the potamato vine seems to be a reminiscence of the ingenious combination which Dr. Loring, of Salem, Mass., discovered when Minister to Portugal. Dr. Loring grafted the common corkscrew upon the cork tree, and succeeded in producing corks with the corkscrew growing in them. For this brilliant service to agriculture the King of Portugal decorated him with the Grand Order of the Leather Medal (second class)