. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 682. Root of a two-year-old belladonna plant, two feet deep. Grown at Washington, D. C. Cultivation should be frequent and shallow to keep the soil in good tilth and free from weeds. The leaves are picked when the plants are in full bloom, dried carefully in the shade, and then kept in a dry place. One crop may be gathered the first year, and two or more the second and later years, if the stalks are cut after each picking of loaves. The roots are dug at the end of the second year, washed, cut into four- or five-inch lengths and dried.
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 682. Root of a two-year-old belladonna plant, two feet deep. Grown at Washington, D. C. Cultivation should be frequent and shallow to keep the soil in good tilth and free from weeds. The leaves are picked when the plants are in full bloom, dried carefully in the shade, and then kept in a dry place. One crop may be gathered the first year, and two or more the second and later years, if the stalks are cut after each picking of loaves. The roots are dug at the end of the second year, washed, cut into four- or five-inch lengths and dried. The yield that may be expected on good soil is about 500 pounds of dried leaves per picking and 1,.500 pounds of dry root at the end of the second year per acre. Camphor (Camphora officinalis, Steud.). Lauracece. Fig. 683. A large evergreen tree, native in Asia, having a wide-spreading top, a thick, much-branched stem, alternate, entire, evergreen, leathery leaves, broadly lanceolate to ovate in form, axillary clusters of small, yellowish flowers which are followed by small, blackish berries, in size and appearance not very unlike the fruit of the native small black cherry {Pruniis serofina). The tree is cultivated in Florida, along the Gulf strip and as far north along the Atlantic coast as South Carolina. The tree yields the gum camphor of commerce, as well as camphor oil used in liniments and the like. These substances are present in varying quantity in all parts of the tree, being especially. Fig. 683. Camphor leaves [Camphora officinalis). abundant in the dead heart-wood of old trees. They are also present in the leaves and other parts. "Ex- periments by the United States Department of Agriculture have shown that camphor gum of high. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (L
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