The best-known vegetable in the world is the potato, It grows in many places and does not need rich soil (土壤) like many other crops. But until four hundred years ago, the Europeans began to know the potato. But today it's one of the main foods in Europe. About half of the world's potatoes are grown in Europe.
In France the potato was not grown for a long time. Here is story about Louis. In 1778 he saw some potato flowers for the first time. He liked them so much that he picked one and put it in his button hole. He was interested in the flowers not the potatoes thmesleves.
