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Show Foods Long Considered Indigenous to America There has been much controversy concerning the foods orlglnnlly found In the Americas. It Is generally agreed that In North America were tobacco, maize, a certain type of pear and a email variety of tomato. In Centra! America and the islands the early ex plorere also found tobacco and tomatoes. toma-toes. In Sotlth America, particularly Brazil, wild potatoes were found In abundance, so much so that In about 18-10 It was necessary to Import thousands thou-sands of these native plants to develop In order to save the potato crop of the world. It was orlglr-ally thought Hint bananas were first found In Central and South America and the Islands, but Inter this theory was the sulJi;r-: of much debate, and It Is gene-all-believed today that, while banana--were originally In that section of Unworn, Un-worn, they were also found In tpp leal sections of the eastern heml-pln-i e at the same time. Washington Star. |