[Artemisia] Competition

[Kathleen Govan]

OOOoooh! I love the learning and exploring that comes from this list and these discussions! I had no idea what Lovage was, so upon searching - look what I found! Cas - looky......!
 
Lovage tea can be applied to wounds as an antiseptic, or drunk to stimulate digestion. In the UK, Lovage cordial is traditionally mixed with brandy in the ratio of 2:1 as a winter drink.
 
Sounds interesting to me! 
 
Brigit


--- On Thu, 4/30/09, Freydis the Good <freydisthegood at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Freydis the Good <freydisthegood at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Competition
To: "Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 9:45 PM


Oooooo....  does it discuss Lovage (*Levisticum officinale*), herb of the
family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) native to southern Europe?
Curious,
Freydis



On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:43 PM, <LadyPDC at aol.com> wrote:

> It is the gardening diary of a minor lord or there abouts whose hobby was
> his gardens.  It covers about a 5 year time span.  Unfortunately it is
> written in Medieval Italian, which bears about as much resemblance to
> modern
> Italian that Olde English bear to American Slang.  So the going is quite
>  slow
> since my knowledge of anything Italian dates back to high school and is
> hopelessly mushed together with high school Spanish and Jr. High School
> French.  I kept changing languages and didn't learn any of them well at
>  all.
> Now many years later, it is a challenge to get through a few  paragraphs
> and
> understand some of what he is writing. (not to mention that the  book was
> written and printed and bound in 1503 - not a modern copy, the actual
>  book, so
> I am quite careful of the book itself, which also slows down the
> translation.)
>
> So I can tell you that so far he hasn't mentioned Roses but that I haven't
> made it through a great deal of the book either so the rose section may
> well be  in the great undiscovered portions of the book.
>
> But I would be glad to share it with you at some safe place and time, or at
>  least let you know if I do run across reference to roses.  So far the
> small  section that I have managed to translate has ben fascinating both in
> new
> discoveries on methods I had not know of and in the discussion of some
> methods  that I had thought were unknown until a later time.
>
> It is a lovely, if painfully slow and delicate, read though and I will  be
> sharing some of the things I have learned from it in my class at  uprising.
>
>
>
> Constance de la Rose
>
> -
>
>
> In a message dated 4/30/2009 12:30:49 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> dtavares1 at hotmail.com writes:
>
> Dame Constance made my eyes light up:
>
>
> > Not to  mention the Italian Gardening Book from 1503 that I have been
> slowly
> >  translating and applying
>
>
>
> Oooh, I haven't heard about this  one!! Does it discuss  roses?
>
>
>
>
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