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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11826, 6 January 1933, Page 3

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really quite familiar, for they are merely our old friends tomatoes under their original name. Canadian scientists have boon looking up the pedigree of this delectable fruit. Peru is thought to have been its original habitat, and the natives of Mexico are known to have grown tomatoes since very early times. They called them \itomates or zitomates, from which the present word, tomato, has probably been derived. It was not until nearly 100 years after tlio discovery of America that Europeans became acquainted with the tomato, and even after they had known the plant for many years it was used mainly for ornamental purposes, the food value of the fruit being little suspected. Eventually tomatoes were cultivated by the Italians for food purposes, and a number of plantations were developed on the shores of the Mediterranean. But even then many people were loath to eat the fruit because of the plant’s relationship to the deadly nightshade. While tomatoes are grown successfully in the open in every province of Canada, their production for the commercial market is principally in Ontario, British Colulnhla and Quebec.