SC - Pumpkins and such...
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Fri Oct 20 12:16:15 PDT 2000
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
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