Various Vegetables

The tomato is native to Mexico and South America. It takes its name frcm a Portuguese word. Celery was unnoticed for many years In Great Britain until it was finally put on the tab le as a choice dainty. The watercress and the sour-dock, which is lísed as a salad in Germany, for many centuriea wasted as weeds before they were put en the table of civilized man. Beans, native to Europe and the East Indies. have been cultivatect from the earliest times. The pea is a native of Asia and was brought by the Aryans into Raly and Greece. Lentils, whieh come from the Himalayas, were probably the first plant? man ever cultivated. The lentil is cultivated in In-dia, Persia, Syria, Egypt. Nubia and parts of Europe: The tin-nip came from Rome. Spinaoh is from Persia, brought into Spain by the Ara.bs. Let tuce comes from the east and the aneients called it the food of the dead. It was eaten at the end of a feast to counteract the heating effects of the wine. Asparagus has always been a favorite. It was originally a wild seacoast weed of Great Britain and Russia and the Greeks and Romans were very fond of it. It is closely related to the famous asphodel, which the ancients supposed was the leading flower of elysium. Asparagus is so plentiful on the Russian steppes that the cattle eal it like grass. In some parts of southern Europe the seeds are dried and used as a substitute for coffee.