Show peanuts nativity in dispute some important economic botanists ts believe that the weight of authority Is in favor of the peanut as a a nathe native of brazil and und thus adding the peanut to the four other plants of high commercial importance which america has contributed to the agriculture of the world cotton corn com tobacco and the potato before the civil war the united states imported peanuts from N cst est africa and today notwithstanding the remarkable in ill creise in the production of american peanuts they are imported from spain africa china and japan |