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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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
