Gourds
| Title |
Gourds |
| Origtitle |
Indian Woman and Young Girl |
| Variants |
Plate 32 |
| Caption |
Detail highlighting the gourd |
| Source |
1964 John White Edition |
| Date |
1585-86 |
| Creator |
John White |
| Type |
Watercolor |
| Origin |
Scan of 1964 UNC Edition of drawings |
| Notes |
Hariot p.14 Macocquer, according to their severall forms by us, Pompions, Mellions, and Gourdes . . . like those kinds in England.” Several forms from one [type of?] seed, one ripens in one month, the other two months. NB VJB As used here this would seem to be a general term for melons, gourds, and squash, or members of the plant family Cucurbitaceae. Jaques p.95 Field and other pumpkins (Cucurbita pepo L.) “raised by the Indians before the coming of Columbus.” Acorn squash p.95 Cushaws and other pumpkins (Cucurbita moschata Duch.) this species includes the Cushaws and Winter Crooknecks Pie pumpkin p.96 Squashes (Cucurbita maxima Duch.) hubbard, Turban, Mammoth Squash p.97 watermelon- (Citrullus vulgaris Schrad), native of Africa, possibly introduced by Spanish or may not have yet been in early ‘Virginia’? p.97 Muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) ‘Cantalope’ and others p.95 ‘Gourds’ “yellow flowered gourds” are Cucurbita pepo var. ovifera |
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