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Excerpt from A Monograph on the Potato
Perhaps more credit belongs to M. Parmentier for spreading the gospel of the virtues of the potato, than to any other one man. Louis XVI did some good work along the same line by order ing a large tract planted to potatoes. The king ordered this plot guarded, and thds aroused curiosity, and hence stimulated interest in the plant.
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