Hayes and Garber - Cucurbit Breeding

sweet corn,
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tomato, bean, sweet potato, pumpkin, squash, and
pepper. Nearly all the other cultivated vegetables of temperate
climates are indigenous to Europe or Asia.
Sweet corn, which is one of the most highly prized foods
grown in America, is probably of recent origin. In Bailey's
(1900) Cyclopedia of American Agriculture, Volume 2, page
402, the following statement occurs:
"The first sweet corn cultivated in America was derived from the
Susquehanna Indians in 1779 by Captain Richard Begnall, who accompanied
General Sullivan on his expedition to subdue the Six Nations."
How long Zea mays saccharata had been under cultivation is
TABLE LIX.
ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF SOME VEGETABLES