SC - Pumpkins and such...

[Decker, Terry D.]

There is a picture from the Tacuinum Sanitatis (14th Century) showing some
large yellow-orange fruit (probably gourds) hanging from a lattice.

Here's an interesting site with pictures:

http://www.bloomingdaletel.com/~sandlady/

Here's some information on cultivation:

http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/hyg-fact/1000/1630.html

And here are some basket gourds, being used as art:

http://www.vdest.com/santafe/KivaFineArts/sf023712.html

Bear

> 
> Everyone points ot htese tiny unripe green gourds as the 
> period pompions,
> but I still wonder about Strabo's bushel-basket size pompions.
> 
> -- 
> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise