[Sca-cooks] watermelons and Pliny continued

[Greg Wardlaw]

Those sound like Lemon Cucumbers.  I love those!!!! Does make them period?
They make the best pickles!!!!!
Nichola (still around still busy)
On Jul 26, 2015 11:29 PM, "Johnna Holloway" <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:

> I supplied the texts tonight based on the Harvard
> Loeb editions through their database. I cannot check the Dalby citations
> except through the Google Books entry on watermelons. The bibliography is
> not up. When I find and unbox the actual books, then I can check Dalby. I
> have no idea why the Dalby entry refers to Pliny in such a way. Maybe
> someone else owns the books and can check, but I doubt it. Interest in
> owning actual reference volumes is waning.
> Like I suggestsd, we can query the author and ask.
>
> Johnna
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Jul 26, 2015, at 11:09 PM, JIMCHEVAL at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Again, you've cited these references yourself. Is it unreasonable to ask
> > you to provide the corresponding texts? If one had to write every author
> to
> > track down their references, research would become a pretty intractable
> > enterprise.
> > And again, I tried to find the Pliny reference and don't even see those
> > chapters. So if you're going to cite them as references, please, find
> them.
> > This really shouldn't vary by edition. Pliny's Natural History is divided
> > into books which are then divided into chapters. The standard references
> > are to the book and the chapter or chapters. So this isn't a problem of
> > finding  the right page number.
> >
> > Jim  Chevallier
> > _www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/)
> >
> > In a message dated 7/26/2015 7:53:40 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> > johnnae at mac.com writes:
> >
> > When I  locate them, I'll check the editions and actual citations in his
> > bibliographies. Then once that is confirmed we can write to Dalby and ask
> > about the references. Or perhaps you'd like to go ahead and ask him
> directly
> > yourself
> >
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