SC - Spring Foods Brain Buster

[Cindy Renfrow]

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>	[Yeldham, Caroline S]  And by great co-incidence I'm working on
>Formond's list of plants dated to c 1500 (he died 1542/3 but the handwriting
>dates it to around 1500 - this information from John Hervey's Early
>Gardening Catalogues 1972 SBN 85033 021 1 published by Phillimore).  the
>text is also known as Sloane MS 1201 in the British Museum.
>
>	He gives something like 100 plants for gardens under the headings of
>' for potage', 'for sauce', 'for the copp', 'for a Salade', ; to stylle',
>'for savour and beaute', 'rotys for a gardyn' and 'for a herber'.  BTW if
>anyone knows what 'for the copp' or to stylle' mean, I'd love to know.

Hello!  My hunch is 'for the copp', means literally 'for the cup', i.e.,
herbs to be used to make wine or other beverages, or perhaps to be eaten
with wine as a sop.  To 'stylle' means to distill.




>	'For a Salade' is
>
>	'buddes of Stanmarche, vyollete flourez, perceley, redmyntes, syves,
>cresse of boleyn, purselan, ramsons, calamyntes, prime rose buddus, dayses,
>rapouses, daundelyon, rokete, red nettell, borage flourz, croppus of Red
>fenell, selbestryune, chykynwede'
>
>	the one that puzzled me was 'selbestryune', which John Harvey
>identifies as ? Herb Trinity, viola tricolour.
>

Gerard has a short section on obsolete English names of plants:
"Stanmarch is Alisander."  Selbestryune is not listed there or in the
index, or in the various names for Viola tricolor (Iacea, Herba Trinitatis,
herb Trinitie, Herba Clauellata, Pensees). (Or in Culpeper, Rohde, or
Britton & Brown.)

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Yours in haste,

Cindy/Sincgiefu
renfrow at skylands.net


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