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Staunton Spectator, And General Advertiser
Staunton, Virginia
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An article explores the wonders of agricultural cultivation, noting that common vegetables like wheat, rye, rice, barley, oats, celery, cabbage, cauliflower, and potato do not grow wild but were developed from unrecognizable wild plants, with potatoes originating from bitter roots in Chili and Monte Video, adding millions to population.
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There is scarcely a vegetable which we now cultivate, that can be found to grow naturally. Buffon has stated that our wheat is a fictitious production, raised to its present condition by the art of agriculture. Rye, rice, barley, or even oats, are not to be found wild, that is to say growing natural in any part of the earth, but have been altered by the industry of mankind from plants not now resembling them, even in such degree as to enable us to recognize their relations. 'The acrid and disagreeable opium graveolens has been transformed into delicious celery, and the colewort, a plant of scanty leaves not weighing altogether half an ounce, has been improved into cabbage, whose leaves alone weigh many pounds, and the cauliflower of considerable dimension being only, in the embryo, a few buds, wh. in their natural state would not have weighed as many grains. The potatoe again, whose introduction has added millions to our population, derives its origin from a small bitter root which grows wild in Chili and Monte Video.
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introduction of potato added millions to population.
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Discussion of how cultivated vegetables originated from wild plants through human agriculture, including wheat as fictitious production, transformation of opium graveolens to celery, colewort to cabbage and cauliflower, and potato from small bitter root in Chili and Monte Video.