{"newspaper_name": "American watchman and Delaware advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
Peppermint plants are extensively cultivated
as field crops parts of England and France but
this country their culture 10 very limited being confined TO
small patches in gardens, &c Peppermint is however an
in the of Ashcd. the adjoining county of franklin
and perhaps in other parts Of the country We are inform
ed that several hundred acres employed in its culture
in Ased and that the quantity of oil extracted from an
of varies from IS to 40 poundsThe process of
cultivation said to be tedious and expensive, but we are
inclined think there but few if any crops raised in
this part of the country that make greater returns for the
money ard labor expended them In the town
extracted large quantities of the oil of wormwood, tansy
wntergrcen, iIemlock &c.


Among the medicinal plants raised in England, farm
crops, peppermint, rhubarb poppes, iqorice, cano
me saffron, lavender, coriander, &c In the county of
Derry there two hundred acres of camomie. In Win
slow two persons cultivated 2 of poppes, in 1925
from which they obtained 1876 pounds of opium.


.hortkdubfou Gdr.