Potatoes came in' Elizabeth's reign; but they were not generally eaten until 200 years later. Artichokes came from the Red Indians in Tudor days. Scarlet runners came into use during the Stuart times. Carrots were introduced tp British dinner tables by Flemish immigrants. Spinach came from Spain. The Saxons partook of wild cabbage, but the cultivated cabbage is ascribed to Sir Anthony Ashley, of Wimborne, St. 'Giles, Dorset, "011 whose tomb is an engraved cabbage. ' : £ The owner of a shop from which a small quantity of tobacco - was stolen on a recent Sunday states that the youth A\ho was convicted and sentenced for the offence had never purchased tobacco from her on a Sunday, and. that the statement made iu Court to that effect was incorrect.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 285, 2 December 1931, Page 8
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