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Show KING OF ALL THE TUBERS Compared With the Yam, Irish Potato Is Called Insipid, Almost Taetelest Bulb. The golden yam, says the Washington Washing-ton Post, that elabnrntea the sun and tho soil into a sugar which makes sac charine eeem sour, was set apart by our first parenta as the overlord of all tubers. The history of Its Irish rival mav be definitely traced to the foster care of Raleigh It spread Into Lancashire, Lan-cashire, St3 path through the low countries may be followed aa clearly as the march of the arpiv Tvorra. But tho genealogy of the yar is lost in the morning mlBtB of antiquity. It Is supposed sup-posed to be Identical with the mandrake man-drake for which tho Ortent peoples dug aa for hidden treasure. Beyond all pcradventuro it Tas tho yam to which Uio Spanish gave what afterward after-ward became the generic uanio "batata," "bata-ta," modified Into our own collective "potato " Tls purple flowers were hailed hail-ed as tho jiarblugerfl of nature's richest rich-est largesse, while Humboldt was still j doubting vvhothor nature originally had anything to do with thn creation of the Irish potato. It 1b the yccu-lent yccu-lent root to which loving nllunionu are made by the great dramatist, who would hayo condemned ,tho Mermaid as a tavern If. ho had. boon .offered Iho tastele6H bulb, exploited, by .Master RHlclgh. |