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Show Native Vegetables America is lucky in the matter of vegetables, some of the most delicious de-licious and nutritious being native to this continent, although most of them originated in South America. When the first colonists came from England they found the Indians In-dians cultivating corn (the ancestor ances-tor of the modern sweet corn), beans and pumpkins in their little fields in clearings. The seeds of English vegetables which the colonists had brought over did not grow well in the new soil and climate, so the settlers -hankfully learned from the Indi-'T Indi-'T ns how .to grow corn, plant beans ind pumpkins in the same hill, and bury a dead fish in each hill for fertilizer |