Section 56. Our Cultivated⁠ Native⁠ Plants

Most⁠ of the fruits which grow on trees, such as our apples and pears, have⁠ been greatly⁠ improved and raised⁠ above their natural state by grafting and other artificial means.

Of⁠ cultivated native plants, the chief are celery⁠, parsley, the cabbage, turnip, carrot, parsnips, and the hop. The onion is⁠ a native of South France, the lettuce of Greece, the radish of China, and the rhubarb, now⁠ so largely used in pies and puddings, of Russia. Cress comes from⁠ Persia, spinach from some⁠ part of Asia, and the Jerusalem artichoke⁠ from Brazil.—Hewitt, Physical Geography of England and Wales.

veredelt.

einheimisch.

The clause ‘Most — trees’ may be briefly rendered by ‘Die meisten Baumfrüchte’.

Here follows the adverbial clause ‘by grafting — means’.

bedeutend.

‘raised — state’ may be elegantly rendered by the p. p. ‘cultivated’ (veredelt).

Say ‘The principal cultivated native plants are’, etc.

See S. 3, N. 2. I should recommend to repeat the art. before each of the following six nouns.

is a native of, stammt aus.

‘Now — puddings’. This elliptic clause must be completed in German. Say ‘which is now so largely (much) used in pies (Pasteten) and puddings’.

aus.

‘some’, here irgend ein.

Erdartischocke, f.