"The Pilgrim Fathers knew but few vegetables. Squash and pump: kin constituted their principal Vegetable diet. As pioneers they, throve on a red meat diet.
"THis was not true in the homes land. In the year 1600 vegetables were widely used in England and were even more popular on the Continent.
"Radishes, of the small red variety, are a popular vegetable in America, They were known in the time of the Pharoahs, as were onions and garlic. The Greeks preferred the radish to such an extent that. they had the vegetable represented by gold model placed in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
"America looked to Europe: for Vegetables as-well as population, to stock the country. Of 19 vegetables in which the trade is mote that a million dollars a year, valuable intermediary the Parlin-|only six, Mth potatoes, sweet mentary Association may be in act-reet cor, green many of the outstanding] be fare native Ame questions between the component parts of the Empire.
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