. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. Book VI. PLANTS FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES. 943 6167. In afurmer section (6055.) we have hinted that no farmer who cultivates
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. Book VI. PLANTS FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES. 943 6167. In afurmer section (6055.) we have hinted that no farmer who cultivates the hop need be without a vegetable equal to asparagus, or fibre similar to that of flax to employ his servants in spinning; and from the foregoing observations it would seem that whoever has a garden may grow bis own coffee and tobacco. Sect. V. Plants ivliich are or may he grown in Ike Fields for Medicinal Purposes. 6168. A number of medicinal plants were fir merit/groum in the fields ; but vegetable drugs are now much less the fashion ; a few powerful sorts are retained, wliich are either collected wild or are natives of o;her countries, and the rest of the pharmacopoeia is chiefly made up of minerals. It may safely be affirmed that there are no plants belonging to this section which deserve the notice of the general farmer; but we have thought it desirable to notice a few sometimes grown by farming gardeners, and which may be considered as belonging almost equally to horticulture and agriculture, or as points of connection between tlie two arts. Tl)ese are the sfffron, liquorice, rhubarb, lavender, mints, chamomile, and thyme. 6169. The saffron, or autumn crocus (Crocus sa'ivus l,.,fg. 813. a), is a l)ult:ous-rootcd. perennial, which has been long cultivated in the soutli of Europe, and since Edward III.'s time in England, and chiefly at Saffron Walden in Essex. It was abundantly cultivated there, and in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and Herefordshire, in the beginning of the
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