 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1828 - 322 Seiten
...POTATO.— Sir Joseph Banks (Hort. Trans, i. 8) considers that the potato was first brought -to Spain from the mountainous parts of South America, in the neighbourhood of Quito. To England, however, this root found its way by a different route, being brought from Virginia by the... | |
 | 1830 - 430 Seiten
...middle of the sixteenth century, and it appears from the details collected on the subject, that they were first brought into Europe from the mountainous parts of South America. Potatoes have not been grown in gardens in Britain more (ban 170 years - nur, to any extent in the... | |
 | John Towers (C.M.H.S.) - 1839 - 746 Seiten
...situations. " Sir Joseph Banks" (Louoox 3646, from ffort. Trans. I, 8) " considers that the potatoe was first brought into Europe from the mountainous parts of South America, in the neighbourhood of Quito, where they were called papas, to Spain, in the early part of the sixteenth century. From Spain, where... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1839 - 320 Seiten
...POTATO.— Sir Joseph Banks (Hort. Trans. i. 8) considers that the potato was first brought to Spain from the mountainous parts of South America, in the neighbourhood of Quito. To England, however, this root found its way by a different route, being brought from Virginia by the... | |
 | Charles Palfray Bosson - 1846 - 140 Seiten
...conjecture has been confirmed by the accounts of travellers, who have since that period visited the country. From these details we may fairly infer, that potatoes...from the mountainous parts of South America, in the neighborhood of Quito ; and, as the Spaniards were the sole possessors of that country, there is little... | |
 | Arthur W. Sutton - 1898 - 282 Seiten
...(bearing date 1836) thus confirms the date of introduction : — It appears probable that the potato was first brought into Europe from the mountainous parts of South America in the neighbourhood of Quito, where they were called papas, to Spain, early in the sixteenth century. From Spain, where they were... | |
 | 1885 - 232 Seiten
...conjecture is confirmed by the accounts uf other travellers. From these details it appears probable that potatoes were first brought into Europe from the mountainous parts of Quito, and, as the Spaniards were sole possessors of that country, there can be little doubt that they... | |
 | Eugene H. Grubb, William Sumner Guilford - 1912 - 642 Seiten
...sufficient importance to find a place in any paper on potatoes : ' It appears probable that the potatoe was first brought into Europe from the mountainous parts of South America in the neighborhood of Quito, where they were called papas, to Spain, early in the sixteenth century. From... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1898 - 1052 Seiten
...(bearing date 1836) thus confirms the date of introduction : — It appears probable that the potato was first brought into Europe from the mountainous parts of South America in the neighbourhood of Quito, where they were called papas, to Spain, early in the sixteenth century. From Spain, where they were... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1821 - 664 Seiten
...the country. It is concluded, that, from these details, it may fairly be inferred, that potatoes were brought into Europe from the mountainous parts of South America, in the neighbourhood of Quito ; and that, as the Spaniards were the sole possessors of that country, there can be little doubt of their... | |
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Spain ; but as it would take some time to introduce them into use in that country, and afterwards to make the Italians so well acquainted with them as to give them a name,* there is every reason to believe they had been several years in Europe, before... 
