2 1 s The TraBhal Kitchen Gardiner. 



Potatoes, As to its original appellation, I find 

 ^7?mi T footfteps of it in any book I have 

 ^^eUation' ^^^^ 5 and for its kind, we find but one 

 which paffeth under this name, and that 

 is called Jifarum Teruvianum, five bat- 

 tat a Hifpanorumy Ger, 925. which is 

 figured but with one root ; which makes 

 beyond difpute that it is not the fame 

 that is cultivated with us 5 but that the 

 next that follows in that laborious au- 

 thor is that which is entitled, hattata 

 Virginiana five Virginianornm, Ger. 927. 

 Virginian potatoes, called alfo by the 

 Indians, pappus. This kind Bauhinus 

 has referf d to the folanums, and calls 

 it, folanum tuberofum efculentum, in his 

 ^redromus, p. 89. but Clufius queftions 

 whether it be not the arachidna of Theo- 

 fhrafius $ but however that be, the laft 

 is the kind that is propagated by the 

 Irijhy and from them, in a great mea- 

 fure, by us here in England, and whicii 

 affords fome of tlie wholfomeft nou- 

 rifhment of any root the garden pro- 

 duces 5 tho* there are others, it muft be 

 confefs d, of a fuperlative nature, fuch 

 as the afore-mention d skirret, and con- 

 fequently fitter for the tables of the great 

 than potatoes are. 



