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was also sesame, which isn't quite instantly recognizable to the northern home-gardener. there were salads, other leafy greens, cabbages which, even if somewhat different when it comes to their exact varieties, are recognizable enough by type. pumpkin-like plants might not just have included the pumpkins
we know in europe and the usa, but also the "winter pumpkin"/wax gourd, bitter melon, and similar western exotics/chinese staples – but walking past a field with pumpkins and seeing the farmer, flower in hand, playing bee to the plant's other flowers, was a thoroughly familiar scene. didn't matter much...
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