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Show Unrelated Potatoes. Sweet potatoes have not much in common botanically with their more familiar namesakes. They have long been cultivated as food in tropical And subtropical countries, and were actually actu-ally introduced into England at on earlier date than the common potato. ! The two tubers' were often confounded confound-ed by writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but the sweet potato won more popularity than Its rival. Steeped in wine or made into a sweetmeat, It was regarded as an excellent invigorator. Sweetl.sh and agreeable to the taste, its flesh-form- J Ing qualities are considered equal at j least to those of the common potato. I |