Re: 'Nuptial Trees'
Many thanks to everyone for help and suggestions (and I'm delighted to
have started such an interesting hare, almost entirely by accident of
course!) but:
I'm losing track of the plot here.
Is this the situation:
Cocker thought he was growing a loquat but in fact he was growing a
medlar?
Wouldn't he have known what a [not particularly unusual] medlar was??
Wouldn't he have spotted the differences in terms of foliage, flower,
etc??
I wonder if the word 'kernel' which he uses might help to resolve the
situation. That is, he talks about the 'kernel' of the fruit, not the
seeds within it. Does that sound right for medlar, wrong for loquat?
If it was indeed a medlar that he was describing, what would a liquor
made from the kernels of its fruit be like?? Taste? Alcohol-level?
Anyone know? Anyone brave enough (or in a position) to experiment?
Tim Longville
