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Show Potato. i The Century tells us that the potato, originally a South Ameri can plant, was introduced to Yir-' Yir-' ginia by Sir John Harvey in 1629, though it was unknown in some counties in England, a hundred and fifty years later. In Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, ypoiatoes are soon mentioned after the advent of the Quakers; they were not among New York products in 1695, but in 1775 we i are told of eleven thousand bushels crown on one sixteen-acre patch in IHr this province. M Potatoes were served, perhaps as H an exotic rarity, at a Harvard in- H stallation dinner in 1707; but the B plant was only brought into culture H. in New England at the arrival of H the Presbyterian immigrants from Ireland in 1708. Five bushels H we.re counted a large crop of pota- toes for a Connecticut farmer; for H it was hold that, if a man ate them every day, he could not live beyond seven years. Florida Dispatch. nth C |