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Show The mosl nutritious root crop, after the potato, Is the beet, which contains 12 per cent sugar. Pumpkins and squashes are of American origin. Watermelons, musk-! musk-! melons and cucumbers are of Asiatic origin. The onion was an object of worship wor-ship by the Egyptians 2,000 years he fore the Christian era. It orig'niiteri In India. The eggplant, bean, cucumber, cabbage, cab-bage, onion, turnip and watermelon, have been cultivated for more that 4,000 years. Asparagus is a native of southern Europe, where It grows on the hunk of rivers, in meadows and in bush-places bush-places on sandy soil. |