234 HISTUIRE DE LA POMME DE TERRE. 
After all that sam been written on the topic, the precise way in 
i ame possessed of the potato is still a mystery ; 
nevertheless ‘bare are a few facts worth noting about it. Clusius, 
to use his latinized and more familiar name, gives this account of 
his ay sale: of the plant, which he calls ‘ Arachidna ss 
forte, Papas Peruanorum,”’ from a false belief that it might 
stirpis re aT a acceptam fero N. V. Philippo de Sivry Dn. de 
alhain et Prefecto urbi Montium in Hannonia Belgice, qui ejus 
bina > cum fructu, Viennam Austrie ad me “mittebat sub 
initium anni M.D.XXCVII. sequente autem anno rami ejus cum flore 
picturam.’ 
i tch M. Roze has ere and it bears this note in the 
bamviations, of Clusius: ‘ Taratoufli 4 Philipp. de — acceptam 
Vienne 26 Januarij 1588 Pap =: Portitinitan Petri This 
data ww oe a few months before Shaves quitted Vienna for ‘Frankfort, 
whither he transferred his belongings and choicest plants; whilst 
he was there, one of his London friends, James Garret, sent him a 
drawing of the plant, which statement was misconstrued by Charles 
Morren into an assertion that Jacob Garet cultivated it at Frank- 
fort. Clusius’s own words are: ‘“ Mittebat ere ad me Jacobus 
Garetus j junior, integre stirpis iconem Francofurtum.’ 
e cuts which are given in the Rariorwm Pigiharee Historia 
were not from either of these drawings, but were taken from plants 
in his own possession. To sum up the account of this continental 
“It is more feroemnbrcn to us to trace, as far as ie is is tineeadl, the 
steps by which the potato came into cultivation in this ¢ ountry. 
The assertion that Sir Walter Raleigh was the actual introducer is 
palpably wrong, but the date 1586 is assigned by tradition as the 
year when our country = received the esculent. _ Gerard’s: state- 
_ which growe and prosper in arden, as in their owne native 
rep -’—Herball, p. 781 (with a Pe idcts, the first published of 
e plan 
And from this it has been maintained that it must have been 
potatoes may have been part of his eta for this plant was culti- 
