09-04-2012, 11:45 PM
I submit to you that gourds were rather prevalent for drinking in Roman times, and in fact, were probably carried across the land bridge by the predecessors to the Inuits.
From "What the Roman emperor Tiberius grew in his greenhouses"
H.S. Paris1* and J. Janick2
1 Department of Vegetable Crops & Plant Genetics, Agricultural Research Organization, Newe
Ya’ar Research Center, P. O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay 30-095, Israel
2 Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, 625 Agriculture
Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010, USA
* Corresponding author e-mail: [email protected]
From "What the Roman emperor Tiberius grew in his greenhouses"
H.S. Paris1* and J. Janick2
1 Department of Vegetable Crops & Plant Genetics, Agricultural Research Organization, Newe
Ya’ar Research Center, P. O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay 30-095, Israel
2 Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, 625 Agriculture
Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010, USA
* Corresponding author e-mail: [email protected]
Quote:Pliny noted, as did Columella, that there was also much variation in the shape of fruits of cucurbita and that shape was related to usage: There are a larger number of ways of using gourds…gourds have recently come to be used instead of jugs in bathrooms, and they have long been actually employed as jars for storing wine… The longer an thinner gourds are the more agreeable they are for food, and consequently those which have been left to grow hanging are more wholesome; and this kind contains fewest seeds, the hardness of which limits their agreeableness as an article of diet.
Non mihi, non tibi, sed nobis
Joe Patt (Paruzynski)
Milton, FL, USA
Joe Patt (Paruzynski)
Milton, FL, USA
