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How does this hypothesis shew us, how much salt, how much sulphur, and how much mercury must be taken to make a chick or a pompion?
To the other bountiful companion food of corn, pumpkins, the colonists never turned very readily. Pompions they called them in "the times wherein old Pompion was a saint." Johnson, in his "Wonder-Working Providence," reproved them for making a jest of pumpkins, since they were so good and unfailing a food "a fruit which the Lord fed his people with till corn and cattle increased."
I heard a captain, the other day, telling of pumpkins, which he called pompions. 'Yes, he said, 'the pompion is a good vegetable, and an excellent succedaneum to the cabbage, in the latter part of the winter. What do you think of succedaneum, Donald?" "'Deed, I think it's a fine word. I don't know what it means, but it has a grand sound.
Thus Briant, in his Flora Diaetetica, enumerates fourteen varieties, a few only of which bear the same name as those now in the list of the London seedsmen. POMPION. Cucurbita Pepo. This is of the gourd species, and grows to a large size. It is not much in use with us: but in the south of Europe the inhabitants use the pulp with some acid fruits for pastry, and it is there very useful.
The greatest reliefe that we sixe which were with the Captaine could finde for the space of nine and twentie dayes was the stalkes of purselaine boyled in water, and now and then a pompion, which we found in the garden of the olde Indian, who vpon this our second arriual with his three sonnes stole from vs, and kept himselfe continually aloft in the mountaines.
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