Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity.

  • Parmentier, Antoine Augustin, 1737-1813.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / observations, && CHAPTER I, OF THE USE OF POTATOES IN SUBSTANCE. AMONG Potatoes there are infinite varieties of colour, bulk, fhape, confidence, and tafte: but thefe varieties are hot always, as it hath been pretended, the cffedi of foil, feafon, and care bdfowed in cultivation j they arife from a real differ- ence of fpecies; for there are correfpond- ing differences in the parts of frudtifica- , - r -v *v 4 ' \ - > £ tion ; the flowers being fometimes of a ci- neritious grey and dirty white, and fome- times of a pale red or fine blue ; the ver- dure of the leaves, the ftalk and fruit, are alfo fubjedt to varieties 5 there are both B early