Harringay House Hot Houses - Harringay online2024-03-29T07:04:38Zhttps://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/harringay-house-hot-houses?groupUrl=historyofharringay&commentId=844301%3AComment%3A164563&groupId=844301%3AGroup%3A10&feed=yes&xn_auth=noI once heard a radio play bas…tag:harringayonline.com,2012-03-29:844301:Comment:3521162012-03-29T11:23:15.339ZAlan Stantonhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/AlanStanton
<p>I once heard a radio play based on story about a man sent on a quest by his beloved. She asks him to bring her a fabulous fruit which is reputed to carry the sign of the cross within it. And when after years of journeying he eventually brings her a dry and rather shrivelled-up banana . . .</p>
<p>Anyone know where this comes from?</p>
<p>I once heard a radio play based on story about a man sent on a quest by his beloved. She asks him to bring her a fabulous fruit which is reputed to carry the sign of the cross within it. And when after years of journeying he eventually brings her a dry and rather shrivelled-up banana . . .</p>
<p>Anyone know where this comes from?</p> I've just found out that in t…tag:harringayonline.com,2012-03-29:844301:Comment:3519262012-03-29T00:37:04.096ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
<p>I've just found out that in the eighteenth century pineapples were so prized that they cost the equivalent of £5,000 in today's money. Begins to explain why Gray was growing them and underscores what a luxury they were.</p>
<p>I've just found out that in the eighteenth century pineapples were so prized that they cost the equivalent of £5,000 in today's money. Begins to explain why Gray was growing them and underscores what a luxury they were.</p> There's a short article about…tag:harringayonline.com,2010-07-14:844301:Comment:1645632010-07-14T10:04:01.867ZLizhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Liz
There's a <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7887731/Miniature-pineapple-grown-in-Cornwall-with-Victorian-techniques.html" target="_blank">short article</a> about pineapple growing at Heligan in the Telegraph today.<br />
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<i>In Victorian times, pineapples were a symbol of great status and wealth because they were so rare, exotic and hard to grow.<br />
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The Heligan team calculate that the cost of just labour and resources to grow the pineapples each year would have been more…</i>
There's a <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7887731/Miniature-pineapple-grown-in-Cornwall-with-Victorian-techniques.html" target="_blank">short article</a> about pineapple growing at Heligan in the Telegraph today.<br />
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<i>In Victorian times, pineapples were a symbol of great status and wealth because they were so rare, exotic and hard to grow.<br />
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The Heligan team calculate that the cost of just labour and resources to grow the pineapples each year would have been more than £10,000 in today's money.</i><br />
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Yet another example of Edward Gray's great wealth and status. In Tobias Smollett's splendid…tag:harringayonline.com,2010-07-02:844301:Comment:1621402010-07-02T21:07:28.312ZDick Harrishttps://harringayonline.com/profile/DickHarris
In Tobias Smollett's splendid book about Peregrine Pickle (1751) there is dreadful taradiddle in which the pregnant Mrs Pickle pretends to crave pineapple and sends a detested aunt around neighbouring stately homes in search of same.
In Tobias Smollett's splendid book about Peregrine Pickle (1751) there is dreadful taradiddle in which the pregnant Mrs Pickle pretends to crave pineapple and sends a detested aunt around neighbouring stately homes in search of same. They have those in the Lost G…tag:harringayonline.com,2010-05-27:844301:Comment:1538182010-05-27T15:25:58.868ZJohn McMullanhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/bogan72
They have those in the <a href="http://www.heligan.com/" target="_blank">Lost Gardens of Heligan</a> too. I got the impression there was a competitive element to it.
They have those in the <a href="http://www.heligan.com/" target="_blank">Lost Gardens of Heligan</a> too. I got the impression there was a competitive element to it. Just read in another text tha…tag:harringayonline.com,2010-05-27:844301:Comment:1538152010-05-27T15:09:04.329ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
Just read in another text that the pineries (c & d) were in fact "<i>pine-apple stoves</i>". Blimey, I'd no idea they were growing pineapples in the UK in the early nineteenth century.
Just read in another text that the pineries (c & d) were in fact "<i>pine-apple stoves</i>". Blimey, I'd no idea they were growing pineapples in the UK in the early nineteenth century.