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Show ORIGIN OF MANY OF OUR PRESENT-DAY VEGETABLES Tho potato, which waa already cultl-vate'd cultl-vate'd In America when the continent was discovered. Is upontauoous In Chile. It was Introduced to Europe- In 15S0 and 15S5 by tho Spaniards, and almost at tho same time by tho English, who brought it from Virginia, where it had appeared about 1550. The sweet potnlo and tho Jerusalem artichoke are also supposed to como from Ameilca, according to the Revue Sclen-tinque. Sclen-tinque. Salsify Is found In a wild elate In Greece. Dalmatla, Italy and Algeria. According Ac-cording to Olivier do Scrres. It has been cultivated in the south of France since the sixteenth century- Turnips and radishes came originally from Central Europe. Tho beetroot nnd the beet, which havo been greatlv Improved Im-proved by cultivation, arc considered as the same species by botanists. The boet. only the stallc of which is eaten, grows wild in the Mediterranean, Persia and Babylonia. Garlic, onions, nhalots nnd leeks have long been cultivated In almost all countries, coun-tries, and their origin tn very uncertain. That or the scalllou is better known. U grows spontaneously In Siberia. One flnda chlvea In u wild state throughout tho Northern Hemisphere. The radish, greatly modified by .cultivation, .cultiva-tion, probably had Itcorlgln in tho temperate tem-perate zone, but from what wild apecleo It ia derived in not exactly kn -wn. The lettuce anpoars to "be derived from the endive, which is found wild In temperate tem-perate and Southern Europe and in the Canaries, Algeria, Abyssinia and tom-peraie tom-peraie Western Asia. Wild succory is spontaneous throughout Europe, even" In Sweden, in Aslu Minor. Persia, the Caucasus, Afghanistan and Siberia. Cultivated succory Is probably a form of endive which Is thought to havo had lis origin in India. Corn salad is found wild throughout Europe, Asia Minor and Jnpan. Cabbage, like all vegetables which have been cultivated from rcmoto times, Is bo-lieved bo-lieved to be of European origin. The artichoke is the cultivated form of the vrlld cardoon. Indigenous to Madeira, the Canaries. Morocco, the South of France, Spain, Italy and the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean islands. Asparagus had its origin in Europo and temperate western Asia. Xho origin of tho eggplant Is India, that of the broadbean is unknown, as also that of the lentil, the pea. checkpea and haricot. hari-cot. The last, named appears to havo come origlnallv from Amcrioi. Tlic carrot grows spontaneously throughout Europe. Asia Minor, Siberia,-northern Siberia,-northern China, Abyssinia, northern Africa, Af-rica, Mndcli-t nnd the Canary Islands. Chervil comes from temperate western Asia, parsley from tho south of Europo and Algeria, eorrol trom Europe and northern Asia, the mountains of India und North America. Spinach Is supposed sup-posed to come from northern Ada. For some twenty years past the crosnes has been used. Thin little tubercle with line, savory Jlesh, which has long been cultivated in China and Japan, la probably prob-ably Indigenous to eastern Asia. The tomato comes from Peru, tho cucumber cu-cumber from India und the pumpkin from Guinea. |