Deseret Evening News | 1897-11-02 | Page 2 | potatoes

Pobls rottoe nto to pcu were dts coer1 bl the Spanlr In the neIgh borhoOI of Quito whero thy wero cultllltd by the notIce Condor n monk trl Introed them Into Ipaln whence they ped Into Ily ned I thence 10 lieiuelam Bumboldt no I thnt at the dcery they worn cull valed In aU the tem petabe Pr ot the clnerl from Chi to New tranad I but not In 1IeOI0 In U5 poto we takell trom Norlh CaroUI nod VlrRlnl 01 the return of the eolonlt coot out by Sir Walter RaleIgh nnd were first cultivated on his ettata near Cork The sneeit potatoes native of j the West Indies were glVen to Colum i bus by the natives ot Cuba They were Introduced Into England by Mr Fran els Drake who wrote of them In praise but forgot to vend Instucllons tit eat only the root The gardener queen hllzabeth planted them and ale some of the tops Ilelng dlsguated by the taste he pulled up his crop made a lire ot the pile cealtrnetrd by the pleasant odor of the burning tubcra picked up a root ate It and being pleased with the taste eontln 1 Ul < tle < 0taon Ond Introducd tbel to the Ilc at otbrNovm hoe Llpplucott s