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Show Pumpkin Came From Asia. The pumpkin in a native of Asia and was Introduced Into Europe about 1ST0, being first raised merely as a curiosity and later aa a food for both man and heajst Just when It was brought to America Is not known. Some claim that a variety o( tho pumpkin was cultivated by the American Amer-ican nborlRlnes, beinfi grown In their maize fields, but this Is probably a misapprehension. But If tho pumpkin pump-kin Is not native to American soil, the pumpkin plo certainly Is. |