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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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fine and soft hairs,causing a hoary appearance. The plant is a shrub varying inheight from a few inches to that ofa man. It bears numerous and crowdedbranches. Some of the other species of thisinteresting genus of plants bear purpleor white flowers, and some obtain thestature of trees. 224
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334 GENISTA. WHERE VEGETABLES CAME FROM. T talk, HE customer at a Lewiston mar-ket was in a reflective moodSaturday morning and would How many of your customers knowanything about what they eat? said he. They ought to, said the blue frock,they buy it and they order it. I dont mean that, was the reply.Of course they know what they eat,but who of them know anything aboutthe stuff? Take vegetables, for in-stance. Oh, lots of em know, said the mar-ket man. Heres potatoes, for in-stance. They are native Americans.I guess Sir Walter Raleigh introducedthem to Europe. I guess he never ate one, for in histime they were not considered fit toeat. They went to Europe from thehills of South America and a strangematter of fact, when you come to thinkof it, is that in the United States, where,barring a few sections, vegetables growin greater abundance and beauty thanany other part of the world, none savemaize and the ground artichokes arenative products. Nonsense! ejaculated the amazedmarketman. No

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