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[david friedman]

According to the Food Chronology by  James Trager (pg 143)  Which is a fun
book in which to look up things.
Maeve

Dated "1696
Grapefruit cultivation in America has its origin in seeds from the
Polynesian pomelo tree (Citrus grandis) introduced into Barbados by an
English sea captain named Shaddock. A sweeter and thinner mutation of the
fruit, or a botanist's development of the 'shaddock', will be called
grapefruit.
1751 George Washington writes of sampling shaddocks.(paraphrase of the entry)
1814
Hortus Jamaicensis by English botanist John Lunan uses the word
'grapefruit' for the first time. ...."

Maeve

>Uduido at aol.com wrote:
>>
>> In a message dated 97-04-24 09:36:45 EDT, you write:
>>
>> << The question is...was grapefruit discovered
>>  by a 15th C. explorer like I heard, or a 19th Century hybrid like
>>  Adamantius heard. Do you know?
>>   >>
>>
>> It appears as if both of the above are wrong! :-0 The following was taken
>> verbatim from "Fieldbook of Naturqal History" , ed. Palmer/Fowler, 2nd
>> Edition, pg. 228:
>>
>> "Native of Asia, but planted widely particularly in Florida, California,
>> Texas, and Lousiana..............Introduced commersially into the United
>> States in 1809............"
>>
>> It goes on to say that the pink-fleshed type, Thompson and Foster varieties
>> have been developed since then.
>>
>> What a hoot! Who'd have tho't! :-)
>>
>> Lord Ras
>
>As I said, I couldn't remember the source of that info...it may have
>been something similar like the pomelo. I'll try to find the source
>after the weekend.
>
>Toodle-pip!
>Adamantius