A History of Agriculture in India v2.c72.s5.2

v2.c72.s5.2

These discoveries opened up a new source of plants which enriched the agriculture of the Old World. Apart from maize, the New World had potato, sweet-potato, arrowroot, cassava (tapioca), beans, tomato, chillies, pumpkin, papaya, pineapple, guava, custard-apple, groundnut, cashewnut, tobacco, American cotton and rubber. It also had varieties of plums, red and white grapes, sunflower, squash, and sarsaparilla. Among the flowering annuals, it had morning-glory, nasturtium and marigolds.