quince-pompions

Updated: November 7, 2024

And as I heare say, one of the channced so to grow first at a very venture; but afterwards from the seed of it came a whole race and progenie of the like, which therefore they call Melonopopones, as a man would say, the Quince-pompions or cucumbers" Pliny, Nat. Hist., Holland's translation, book xix, c.5

George P. Marsh - The Earth as Modified by Human Action