SC - Gourds

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/3/99 11:42:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, troy at asan.com 
writes:

<< Do you mean Orient, by any chance?>>

Yes. :-) I worked long and hard this past weekend ending it with traveling to 
the Ladies event site and laying down tent platforms so I was a wee bit 
tired. Sorry.

 <<....<snip>......The illustrations (we're probably talking about the same 
ones)>>

I don't think so. The illustration in the herbal clearly shows a bottle shape 
that is globular at the stem end  thinning in the middle and widening to a 
fatter globe on the  flower end. In the background are long skinny  objects 
which could be interpreted as very long cucumbers or Italian edible gourds. 
Interspersed throughout are rather samller objects that could be cucumbers 
but the pointing ends suggest luffas to me rather tahn the former. Both 
Italian edible gourds and bottle gourds have a dense fuzz covering them when 
they are young. I haven't grown luffas in a while so I can't say if they have 
fuzz when young or not.

One other point that might be taken into consideration is that although the 
growing season for all 3 types of gourds mentioned above is rather long., the 
fuzzy melon takes a considerably longer season to mature. 

Apparantly this is an area that needs  more study. :-)

Ras
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