[Sca-cooks] Fwd: {OHG} kpNewsletter February 10, 2003 (Thought you might find this interesting)

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach robert frazier:
>--- CherylLGrice at cs.com wrote:
>>  To: organichomesteadinggardening at yahoogroups.com
>>  From: CherylLGrice at cs.com
>>  Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:25:35 EST
>>  Subject: {OHG} kpNewsletter  February 10, 2003
>>  (Thought you might find this interesting)
>>
>>  kpNewsletter  February 10, 2003
>>  www.killerplants.com
>>
>>  =======================
>>  What fruit was used for colds?
>>  By Chelsie Vandaveer
>>  =======================
>  >
>>  In The Herbal, Or General Historie of Plants , John
>>  Gerard (1597) wrote of
>>  the four known citrus--the citron, limon, orange,
>  > and Assyrian apple
>  > (grapefruit).

FWIW, it was my understanding that what we call a grapefruit is a
19th-century hybrid of the sweet orange and the shaddock or pomelo.
Gerard, most likely, never heard of the grapefruit.

Adamantius