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pOTATOE.
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The history of this plant is strikingly il
Illustrative of the omnipotent influence OF au-
thority; its introduction received, for more
than two centuries, an unexamplsd opposi-
ton from vulgar prejudice which all the phi
losophy of the age was unable to disspate,
until Louis XIV. wore bunch fthe flowers
OF the potatoc in the midst of his court, on
day OF festivity; the people then, for the first
time, obsequiously acknowledged its utility,
and began to express their astonishment at
the apathy which had so long prevailed with
regard to its general cultivation. That
which authority thus established, time and
experience have fully ratified, and scientific
research has extended the numerous re-
sources which this plant is SO we'll calculat-
ca to furnished; that its stalk. considered as
a textile plant, produces in Austria cotto-