Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1910 — FARMER HAS NEW VEGETABLE [ARTICLE]

FARMER HAS NEW VEGETABLE

Tennesseean Says He Has at Last Raised Peppermato—peculiar ''Combination. Humboldt. Term. —Henry P. Cole, a prosperous farmer of this vicinity, promises to rival the great Burbank In marvelous feats of plant raising. His latest Innovation Is a combination tomato and pepper plant, which will enable the lover of the delicious fruit to abandon the antiquated method of using pepper, it being only necessary to slice the new product and It Is ready for use. The tomato patch from which the freak tomato waa taken Is In dose proximity to a field of peppers, and ft) Is supposed by the plant raisers of this section that the pollen of the two was mixed during the blooming season. The physical construction of the “peppermato," as it has been locally dubbed, is peculiarly Interesting. As If taking Into consideration the tastes of every one, nature so arranged the fruit that the pepper part may be separated from the tomato, and those who fear the ill effects of pepper upon human vitality may raise the fruit tor market purposes and at the same time remove the pod from the few which they may personally consume. The “peppermato" resembles the poverbi&l Siamese twins, being a perfect specimen of tomato species, to which is grafted a full pod of pepper. It is thought that the new plant Involves principles which will be of Interest to scientists.