HERB - List 5 of 7 - Herbs etc. for Windows and Pots

[RAISYA@aol.com]

Jin Lui,

Actually, I just meant that the first 4 lists were the ones I have an
immediate use for, 3 cover culinary plants, the fourth is another lavender
reference <G>.  I'm just as interested in the other 3 lists, thank you!

Clare,

According to Penelope Hobhouse (GARDENING THROUGH THE AGES), "When Geoffrey
Chaucer mentioned the 'clowe-gilofre' c. 1400, he had in mind the oriental
spice clove and not the clove gilliflower or carnation, which was introduced
to northern Europe only in the last quarter of the fifteenth century.
Although carnations were undoubtedly grown in Turkey and the Middle East at an
earlier date, the Spanish grew carnations at Valencia only by 1460  and in
France the 'oeillet' is first mentioned in the 1470s."  There's also an
illumination from a Flemish book of hours (ca. 1500) that shows a carnation in
a big pot being pushed in a wheelbarrow.  To be honest, though, I only
remembered this because of the wheelbarrow, I'd been wondering if I could get
a friend to build one like it <G>.

Raisya
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