Potato Tobacco Chocolate. 



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is a native of South America and it still 

 grows wild in Peru and Chili ; it was first 

 taken to Spain and England about three hun- 

 dred years ago. 



50. Potatoes are more extensively cultivated 

 in New York than in any other state ; they are 

 largely used in the manufacture of starch. 



51. There is another plant 

 which is also very extensively 

 used in all parts of the world, 

 and which, like the potato, 

 was first found and cultivated 

 by the natives in America, be- 

 fore the discovery of America ; 

 it is tobacco. Tobacco grows 

 best in warm countries ; the 

 ancient Mexicans raised large 

 crops of it. 



52. Now it is extensively 

 cultivated in Kentucky, Vir- Tobacco, 

 ginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, 

 N. Carolina, and Maryland ; also in Cuba, 

 China, Japan, Persia, and Southern Europe. 



53. Chocolate is prepared from the seeds of 

 the chocolate or cacao tree, which grows abun- 

 dantly in Central and South America and 

 the West Indies. 



54. Cacao is pronounced ka-kay'o or kay'ko. The 

 cocoa (ko'ko)or cocoanut-tree is entirely different (p, 101). 



