Apart from tobacco and potatoes, what else did Sir Walter Raleigh return to Britain with from the new world?

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The answer is maize. The settlers of Roanoke Island, that Sir Walter Raleigh helped found, took three important crops with them back to Britain: tobacco, potatoes, and maize (Indian corn or just corn). Here's what one source says: "Although the settlement did not succeed, this effort to plant a colony was not wholly fruitless, for the colonists took to England on their return three products which gave to the people a somewhat different idea of the real wealth of the new lands. These were not precious metals, but products of the soil, namely, tobacco, the white potato, and Indian corn." http://colonialancestors.com/biographies/walterraleigh.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize Sep 17 07, 6:19 PM