. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. MEDICINAL PLANTS MEDICINAL PLANTS 457 MEDICINAL, CONDIMENTAL AND ARO- MATIC PLANTS. Figs. G80-691. By R. H. True, and others. The growing of medicinal, condimental and aro- matic plants in the United States has at present hardly passed beyond the experimental or garden stage, the demand for articles of these classes be- ing in general met where possible by importation. Nearly a
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. MEDICINAL PLANTS MEDICINAL PLANTS 457 MEDICINAL, CONDIMENTAL AND ARO- MATIC PLANTS. Figs. G80-691. By R. H. True, and others. The growing of medicinal, condimental and aro- matic plants in the United States has at present hardly passed beyond the experimental or garden stage, the demand for articles of these classes be- ing in general met where possible by importation. Nearly all native drug products are now obtained from wild plants. The threatened disappearance of some of the most valuable has led the government and private experimenters to make efforts to put some of these kinds under cultivation, e. g., golden seal, ginseng, echinacea, Seneca snakeroot, Gas- cara sagrada and others. Drug-plant cultivation on a small scale has long been practiced in a few places by the Shakers and others. At present, be- ginnings in this line have been made in several places. Ginseng to a total value of about a million dollars is grown in New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri and other states in the eastern half of the country. Golden seal is grown sparingly over a similar area. In California, some success has been reached in growing insect flowers (Pyrethrum spe- cies) on a commercial scale. Botanical source. For medicinal, condimental and aromatic prod- ucts in America, many botanical families are drawn on. The orchid family furnishes vanilla pods; the crowfoot family provides chiefly medici- nal products, as aconite, golden seal and larkspur; the potato family is represented by drugs, as bella- donna, jimson weed, tobacco, and among the condi- ments by red pepper and paprika; the mint family furnishes a considerable number of products used in medicine and also as flavoring agents, such as sage (Fig. 680), marjoram, basil, peppermint, spear- mint, hyssop, thyme, sa
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