Comments on: Saucy potato https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/saucy-potatoe/ Gardenvisit.com Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:38:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Kylie A Graham https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/saucy-potatoe/#comment-203 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:38:23 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=460#comment-203 Good post, but have you thought about Saucy potato before?

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/saucy-potatoe/#comment-202 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:23:19 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=460#comment-202 The history of the potato is fascinating.

So to is the history of the orange in England.

The first record of the orange in England is in 1290. It is said that the first Orangerie in the UK was built at Beddington for Sir Francis Carew. http://www.oakconservatories.co.uk/orangeries.htm.

While the orangrie at Mapperton House dates from 1960, both of the houses at Beddington and Mapperton were recorded in the Doomsday Book.[http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/AM20778.html;http://www.mapperton.com/home_frame.htm%5D

The first Earl of Sandwich [yes of sandwich fame] is credited with bringing Charles the Second back to England from Holland in 1660. The orangery apparently was made fashionable in England amongst the nobility because of an early seventeenth century Dutch fashion for orangeries.

I wonder what the archeological record on orangeries would reveal?

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