Tuber Preacher

 

The field planting was finally successful in Austria in 1680 and near Nuremberg in 1682, in Anhalt 1690 as well as in Oberfranken in 1694.

Before planting first success in growing by the botanist Carolus Clusius from the Netherlands had taken place. His work belongs to the essential basis for the success of the potato as a European cultivated plant.

Often preachers advertised for the planting of the potato. No easy task regarding the wide superstition, that the potato is believed to be a sinful fruit from the saliva of the devil.