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In the Driftway
September 15, 1926 issue

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The article throws light on the history of vegetables. The seed catalogues and the horticultural guides which one finds in libraries are woefully deficient; they yield no lore or learning. There are treatises on gastronomy and, solemn tomes on agriculture; but the one wants to know who brought the first Brussels sprout to the U.S., and when; who first tamed the wild carrot and the succulent pea; adventures of Indian corn around the world; how and when the tomato lost its earlier cognomen of "love apple"; what vegetables, besides parsnips and turnips, were known to the Romans; and what garden things came with the first settlers to the U.S.

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VEGETABLES; FOOD crops; CORN; SPROUTS; HORTICULTURAL crops; UNITED States
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