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Show jiWetables Grow Cresting Tales .iyou know your vegetables? jar common vegetables are at travelers. They literally it from all over the world, o:ding to Russell Keetch, :;ty agent. 7ae potato, of course, is a :ive. It was first dehydrated American Indians, it is not j at all, Mr. Keetch asserted. sweet potato is a product of ; plant belonging to the ening Glory family and is eta pre-Columbian native. :;mieyam is an entirely dif -at plant. siveet corn, we all know, was ri by Indians long before Co-eebus Co-eebus arrived," he said. Beans ee American, but not the -as. They are a native of iiemala; soy beans came .a China where they were :n 5000 years ago, but just :atly found their place in :rican agriculture, imssel sprouts and kohlarabi j .: almost the only vegetables a originated in Northern Eur-except Eur-except the rutabaga which ! cabbage-turnip cross, ipinach came from Persia. :ibage found its way here a the Mediterranean area. Parsnips have been cultivated : 2000 years and grew wild in 4 .a Minor. Carrots have been "n in Near East since time memorial. The Greeks - - ;jght them beneficial food didn't know why; only atly have they been eaten '' or in salad. Beets and iss chard are the same spe-s, spe-s, believe it or not and both ? toown by the Romans. -?uash and pumpkins mergf closely into one another that y pumpkin pies are really ash; they both were populai fe of American Indians. The "i and its kin in early Bib-il Bib-il times and believe it o ; it belongs to the lily fam-;-oame from mid-Asia. travels of many more stable varieties are known. m one be interested in "ig their origin Mr. Keetch gjjour inquiry. |