From the notes appended to Larry Zuckerman’s “The Potato: How the humble spud rescued the western world”:
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE SERIES
In the mid-1790s, Britain’s Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement commissioned county-by-county agricultural surveys. […] All had virtually the same title: General View of the Agriculture of the County of _____________; with Observations on the Means of Its Improvement. All were published in London […]
Several rank highly in a quick Google search. This link leads to copies in several formats of the Devon survey. There’s a table of contents on Page VIII. No mention of parsnips (save, in an appendix, as available as seed), though “kohl rabi” rates an entry. Gardens and orchards are lumped together in a brief section. The only vegetable mentioned by name in the garden section is the leek and the only fruit in the orchards seems to be the apple. I see no mention at all of berries.
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European is an important qualification. For example, potatoes were readily accepted by the Coast Salish, whose subsistence diet already included some (much more difficult) tubers. One of the reasons usually given for European hesitance is that it was known to be a Solanaceae and so suspected of being poisonous.