Comments: The Jerusalem apple

Relates how Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson publicly ate a tomato in Salem, N.J., on Sept. 26, 1820, proving that it was not poisonous.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ferguson, Henry N.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	[Gettysburg, PA : Early American Society], 1978.
Series:	Early American life ; v. 9, no. 5.
Subjects:	Johnson, Robert G. > (Robert Gibbon), > 1771-1850 > Knowledge > Tomatoes. Tomatoes > United States > History > 19th century.

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