VEGETABLE POETRY.

Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 647, 9 July 1892, Page 5

VEGETABLE POETRY.

Potatoes come from far Virginia ; Paralev via sent us from Sardinia ; French bfatis, loir grau'int' on tho earth, To distant India trace their birth ; But scarlet runners, gay an<i tall, Thut run upon your garden wall — A eheerfal night to all around — In South America, were found. The onion travelled here from Spiin, The leek from Switzerland wo guiu, Gnrlie from Sicily obtain, Spinach in far Syria grows ; Two hundred years ago or morn Brazil the artichoke scut o'«r. Aud Southern Kuropu's aea coast »hore Beetroot on ua bestowo. Whtn 'Lizabath was ri'igning here Peas came from Holland and wove dear. The South of Kurope Hys its claim To fcpnnß, hut some from Europe came. The latlinheß, both thin uuil stout, Natives of China are, no doubt; Buttarnipa, carrots, amUi'ii kale, With oelury no criep and y,:i}<;, Are products o£ our own fair lund ; And oafebttgoi; —a goodly tiibn, Which abler ps»s might wnll describe Are nleo eiirn, I untiorstaml. —" Qoldthwaito'p GeojrravihienlMagajiino."