SC - House Fluffy Pink Bunny?

[Shari Burnham]

	Isn't there another possible interpretation?  If fresh ginger
could have been brought to Gerard from the West Indies, then it could
survive a lengthy sea voyage, so it could have been imported from the
Canarys, Azores or other parts of the Mediterranean in the 15th century
(possibly even further afield); so the question is when it was being
grown in those areas.  I have a memory of being told it was imported in
sand to keep it fresh and free from mould.  

	On climate, this has been extensively discussed on h-costume.
The evidence seems to be for a small change of maybe a degree or two
(which seems to have affected Spain badly) for the 16th to early 20th
centuries.  The effect of this on clothes, crops, economic prosperity or
the role of Western Europe in world history is very debatable!


	Caroline  

> Hello! Gerard (1633 edition) says "Ginger is most impatient of the
> coldnesse of these our Northerne Regions, as my selfe haue found by
> proofe,
> for that there haue beene brought vnto me at seuerall times sundry
> plants
> thereof, fresh, greene, and full of juyce, as well from the West
> Indies, as
> from Barbary and other places; which haue sprouted and budded forth
> greene
> leaues in my garden in the heate of Sommer, but as soone as it hath
> been
> but touched with the first sharp blast of Winter, it hath presently
> perished both blade and root...
> Ginger groweth in Spaine, Barbary, in the Canary Islands, and the
> Azores..."
> 
> Nevertheless, there are recipes in the Harleian MSS., for example,
> which
> call for parings of ginger.  The recipe for Peris in compost, Harl.
> MS.
> 4016, #97, says "...And then pare clene rasinges of ginger, & temper
> hem
> ij. or iij. daies, in wyne, And after, ley hem in clarefied hony
> colde, all
> a day or a night; And [th]en take the rasons [parings] oute of the
> hony,
> And caste hem to the peres in composte..."
> 
> I'm wondering if there was a climatic change between the time the
> Harleian
> MS. was written (c. 1450), and the time Gerard wrote his book, which
> would
> have allowed ginger to be cultivated in England in the 15th c.?
> 
> 
> 
> Cindy/Sincgiefu
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