Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — CALLS NEW FRUIT EGGATOM [ARTICLE]

CALLS NEW FRUIT EGGATOM

Truck Farmer in Indiana Grows New Vegetable From Tomato and Egg Plant. La Marque, Tex.—P. Dan George, a truck farmer of this place, has succeeded in producing a new vegetable by grafting the tomato upon the eggplant Ho calls it the “eggatom.” The yield of the new plant Is enormous. The fruit is of deep purple color on the outside, but on the Inside is red. It is almost free of seed and is much larger than the tomato.