Fw: HERB - potpourri

[Roberta R Comstock]

Lynette,

Don't worry too much about the occasional redundancy.  

Welcome to the Herbalist.

Thanks for posting your potpourri recipe.  Is this your original
concoction or someone else's or from a book?  I'd like to be able to give
proper credit for it when I make some.

Tonka beans are from a tropical leguminous South American tree (Dipteryx
spp. or Coumarouna spp.), not sure availability in period, but I believe
the scent in them is coumarin (which is also in woodruff and sweet
clover).  Allspice (Pimenta officinalis) is also tropical and New World,
but was available in Europe late in period.

Your recipe looks to me like what a potpourri Should be like.  I've never
been much interested in the dry ones, especially since they have been
sold in  so many places with vast quatities of essential oils added. 
(Not good for asthmatics).

Hertha

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