HERB - Re: Gillyflowers

[Jenne Heise]

> Hmmm. No footnote on this info in BC's Herb Garden, no footnotes in the entire book, which is
> annoying. 
[snip] Thanks for the Culpepper reference.
I went back to _my_ secondary sources, and found that Penelope Hobhouse (_Plants in
Garden History_) claims that clove carnations were introduced to England after 1400, and
pinks somewhat earlier. Sylvia Landberg (_Medieval Gardens) makes a similar claim. I
can't say how reliable Hobhouse as evidence of absence, since she also repeats the story
about rosemary being brought to England by Phillipa of Hanault.

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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at mail.browser.net
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