SC - Re: Currants vs Zante raisins (Long reply)

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/20/00 2:03:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ringofkings at mindspring.com writes:

<< I may be proven wrong on my views with further documentation,
 but what I have at hand leads me to my currant (pun intended)
 position on this berry important issue.
 
 Akim Yaroslavich >>

Or your position might hold some water if restricted to the context of the 
last 25 years of the 16th century although I rather doubt it.  Hardly, a 
reason to extrapolate the same usage over the previous thousand years.

Also dismissing a noted gardener's (or a noted herbalist's) work on the basis 
of a few less than perfect observations hardly seems fair. If a work is to be 
dismissed in entirety because a couple of items are questionable in unrelated 
areas then there is no reason to believe that any of the works of anyone 
should be gleaned for information since they all contain some errors 
somewhere.

Ras
(who is  cutting this short to go harvest the geese from his barnacle tree)