SC - Desserts (was Ladies and Gentles)

[Mark.S Harris]

While I am not sure who brought them, I do know that they were not eaten
for a while due to trhe pretty flowers.  Why, being in the nightshade
family gave the tomato a late start too.  Nightshade was known, and the
whole family was shunned.  Your random botanical fact for the day

Bogdan

On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Decker, Terry D. wrote:

> >I thought was fairly well established that Sir Walter Raleigh had a potato
> >farm in Ireland in 1570 or so.
> >
> >phlip at morganco.net
> 
> Apocryphally, Raleigh introduced the potato to England, but I have seen
> no solid documentation of this.  I think it more like the potato was
> introduced into continental Europe from Spain and into England by
> Francis Drake and his sea dogs.  Wherever it came from, the potato
> didn't see serious cultivation until the mid-seventeenth century.  It is
> possible that Raleigh grew sweet potatoes, as that vegetable appears to
> have become more common in England before 1600.
> 
> Bear
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