People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1897 — Ireland’s Potato Tercentenary. [ARTICLE]

Ireland’s Potato Tercentenary.

The introduction of the potato in toil Ireland three centuries ago by Sir \V«9| ter Raleigh was celebrated by aence and show’ iu the Rotunda,. Ddbiiraß recently under the auspices of the IrishM Gardeners’ association. A larger and] more meritorious collection of the dis-1 ferent varieties of the succdleht “Ireland’s staple food,” from alnXlM every part of the kingdom was never be-■ fore witnessed either in Dublin or outM . of it.—London I