pomato

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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.

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  1. A fruit said to be the result of amalgamation of the potato and tomato, produced by Luther Burbank. It is a small tomato-like fruit, with white flesh, edible either raw or cooked. The “pomato,” one of the most wonderful creations, now under way. This may be called a tomato growing upon a potato. It produces in abundance a white, fragrant, succulent, delicious fruit upon the potato-tops, something unlike any fruit ever known before, and may be eaten cooked or as a salad, or as other fresh fruits, the flavor resembling the “po-ha” berry of the Hawaiian Islands. The Century, March, 1905, p. 668.
  2. pomegranate.Native pomegranate in Australia, either of two small trees of the caper family, Capparis nobilis, also called caper-tree, and C. Mitchellii, also known as native orange. The fruits of the latter species are less than half the size of those of the former; hence it is usually known as small native pomegranate. See caper-tree and native orange .

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  • Plant-breeding is simply accomplished by sifting the pollen of one plant upon the stigma of another, this act--pollenation--resulting in fertilization, Nature in her own mysterious ways bringing forth the new plant In order to get an idea of the Burbank method, let us consider some of his most famous experiments, for instance, that in which by uniting the potato with the tomato he has produced a new variety which has been very aptly named the pomato. —  Marvels of Modern Science
  • 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. —  Marvels of Modern Science
  • We have invented stranger fruits than that, such as the Logan-berry and the pomato. —  Three Acres and Liberty
  • The pomato, a tomato grown on a potato plant, is most interesting. —  History of California
  • In order to get an idea of the Burbank method, let us consider some of his most famous experiments, for instance, that in which by uniting the potato with the tomato he has produced a new variety which has been very aptly named the pomato. —  Marvels of Modern Science
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