The famous nurserymen, Louden and Wise, did not consider the potato as worthy of notice in their Complete Gardener, published in 1749 ; and Bradley, who about the same time wrote so extensively on horticultural subjects, speaks of them as inferior to skirretts and radishes.

You're asking me a ridiculous hypothetical question that no one can reasonably answer. You need to stop with your gotchas.

When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […] ?

Fourteen, sir. No age to be riding a horse foaled by an acorn, I can tell you.