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CEcONOMICAL USES. 
Beckstein observes, that the leaves are noxious to insects: and 
it is well known that no kind of cattle will eat any part of the 
plant. It has been suggested therefore, that the leaves might be 
usefully employed in destroying the moths that infest woollen cloths, 
and the worms which injure books.* M. Bautroth has used the whole 
plant for tanning leather; and it is supposed by Dr. Bohmer, that 
the French snuff, called a la violette, receives its peculiar scent from 
this root. Throughout the United States, it is used by the country 
people as an ingredient in making wine bitters 
* Mease’s Edit. Dom. Ency. 
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