“We have as yet no certaine proofe or experience concerning…
“We have as yet no certaine proofe or experience concerning the vertues of… Corne, although the… Indians . . . are constrained to make a virtue of necessitie, and think it a good food: whereas we mayeasily judge that it nourisheth but little, and is of a hard… digestion, a more convenient food for swine than for men.” — John Gerard, English botanist, The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, 1597 The development that brought “corne” to the attention of botanists such as Gerard is best known as the