SC - InfoBeat Entertainment @ 12/03/97
jeffrey s heilveil
heilveil at students.uiuc.edu
Fri Dec 5 10:04:33 PST 1997
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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