. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. X-t_ 'v. Fig. 744. Phyllotary of po- Uto. The in- serted t;ieks show the loca- tion of tlie buds. discovery. W. R. Gerard asserts, however ("Scien- tific American," September 15, 1906), that the opcnauk of Thomas Herriot (a product much quoted or discussed in the later writings on the potato), supposed to have been the potato, is really the ground-nut, Apios tuberosa.
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. X-t_ 'v. Fig. 744. Phyllotary of po- Uto. The in- serted t;ieks show the loca- tion of tlie buds. discovery. W. R. Gerard asserts, however ("Scien- tific American," September 15, 1906), that the opcnauk of Thomas Herriot (a product much quoted or discussed in the later writings on the potato), supposed to have been the potato, is really the ground-nut, Apios tuberosa. He contends that the potato was secured by Raleigh's expedition, under his cousin Sir Richard Grenville, on the return voyage, from a Spanish ship hailing from St. Domingo and cap- tured in mid-ocean. The potato was cultivated in Ireland long before it was known in England. Probably the potato was served as an exotic rarity at a Harvard installation dinner in 1707 ; but the tuber was not brought into cultivation in New England till the arrival of the Presbyterian immigrants from Ire- land in 1718. The potato of Shake- speare was what we now know as the sweet-potato, which derived its name from the aboriginal word botata or batata; this word or its derivative was later applied to our common or Irish potato. The abo- riginal word is still preserved to us in the Latin name of the sweet- potato, Ipomcea (or Convolvulus) Batatas. Gerarde's Herball, published in 1597, describes the potato, and the edition published in 1636 con- tains a woodcut of it. Many of the other works of like nature contain descriptions of it. In 1663, the Royal Society of England tried to popularize the plant, especially in Ireland. So late as 1699 Evelyn barely mentioned the potato, and in 1719 London and Wise did not consider the plant worthy of listing in their Complete Gardener. Only two varieties were listed in 1771, yet by the end of the eighteenth century they were numerous. Potato-culture spread slowl
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