Note 1 — Chapter XIII
Reading edition
Horticultural Transact. vol. v, p. 249. Mr. Caldeleugh sent home two tubers, which, being well manured, even the first season produced numerous potatoes and an abundance of leaves. See Humboldt’s interesting discussion on this plant, which it appears was unknown in Mexico,—in Polit. Essay on New Spain, book iv, chap. ix.