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Historic JamestowneJohn Smith Staute against a Jamestown Sunset
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Cucumbers
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Many familiar garden vegetables, including melons, squash, pumpkins and cucumbers, were raised in various regions of Africa.
 
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White mulberries of Jamestown  

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English settlers were encouraged to plant mulberry trees to help their silk production attempts. (Silkworms eat mulberry leaves.) Red mulberry is native to North America but the silkworms preferred the white mulberries of the Orient. Today Jamestown has both red and white mulberry trees.

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