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Show Fli-nt Vue of I'otiltnt-N In Ireland. In the garden adjoining his house at Youghal, Halelgh planted the llrst potatoes po-tatoes over grown In Ireland. The vegetable veg-etable was brought to him from the little colony which ho endeavored to establish In Virginia. The colonists started In April, 1CS5, and Thomas Harriot, ono of their number, wrote n description of the country in 15S7. Ho describes a root which must havo been tbo potato: "Openank nro a kind of roots of round form, some of the blgueoso of walnuts, some farro greater, which aro found In moist & mniisli grounds growing grow-ing many together ono by another In ropes, as though they wero fastened with n string. Being boiled they nro very good meat." Tho Spaniards first brought potatoes to Europe, but Raleigh was undoubtedly undoubted-ly tho llrst to lutroduco the plnnt into Ireland. |