SC - Re: Gerard's Herbal

[Craig Jones.]

I'm currently slowly putting together a Herbal for Brewers, some of
this research could be useful for me.  Care to swap research?  I also
have several dozen scanned woodcuts of various herbs from various
sources.

Cheers,

Drake.


>Akim Yaroslavich said:
>> 
>> Lord Frederich,
>> Where do you live?  Your location will have a great deal to
>> do with what you can succesfully grow out of Gerard.  I have
>> spent at least 15 years researching period sources and have
>> compliled a rather lengthy (700-800 species) listing by Latin
>> names and modern names of period trees, fruits, flowers
>> and  vegetables.  In most cases I have found and listed
>> which of the modern varieties are the original stock and
>> not modern hybrids.  I have grown at least 80% of them at
>> one time or another in my vast Elizabethean gardens.
>> Regretably, the list is on my ancient Mac hard drive and I have
>> never transfered the data to my PC.  I have a hard copy around
>> here somewhere, but I would have to photocopy it and send
>> it to you via US Snail.
>
>oooh. I want! *** I want this *** Can I? Can I?
>
>Having glanced at the ten or more digests I still have to go, I think
>there may be some discussions on retrieving this data from your
>ancient (that means it is over five years old, right?) drive. 
>
>If I have to, I'll work from a paper copy and OCR it into my machine.
>Of course, the latin could be a problem since I would have no idea
>whether the characters that the OCR program thought it saw would be
>correct or not. But I could scan it in and then email it to you for
>cleanup and proofing.
>
>Please don't let this effort go to waste. If you aren't willing to
>let me add it to the Florilegium, please let the SCA researchers get
>to it elsewhere.
>-- 
>Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
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