January 11, 1919.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
: 1 FRUIT REGISTER. 
APPLE EDWARD VII 
APPLE Edwar sale 
БУ ^ac varie 
reity of fru 
ohn T. Tubb, Bear 
Wood Gardens, 
Wokingham 
MEDICINAL PLANTS.* 
_ THE cultivation of medicinal ts hi 
tently become a matter of great interest and dis- 
tinct importance ince the commencement o 
J as been very prominentl 
ought before the public, but, А fort d 
‘ition been incorrectly stated, and a 
ong impression as to our present and future 
has been inculcated. A t deal of 
linger round the subject in the 
f many people. me apparently ae 
visions 
. 
У аа а eli htful 
rented herbs, Бон руш, of о 
Concei ved he 
М the i at there are practi- 
¥ no drugs to be had, and medical men 
8 to find medicines for the alleviation 
ity. is is total 
and apparently has arisen through a 
shortage of a f important 
ical 
to the semi-primitive state of th 
quack doctor of the eighteenth cen- 
T В. Glode > Guyer, Edinburgh. Reprinted from the 
{ l, TIL. Part d. "n 
tish Horticuitural Association, 
чыз who professed to cure every evil under the 
у decoctions of weeds. 
m, issued 
tion та соПес 
cinal us 
вона 
ried ma t requi nts a st 
package ansport were absolutely ig- 
nored. This a dire result, because through 
t the land a larg people started 
Fic. 7.—APPLE EDWARD VII.; 
tc co-ordinate and organise this rush to the Klon- 
is to be hoped that 
o 
ecting and preservin 
countryside for medicinal purp 
ord btai 
vemm P ian, and 
wn , which were largely 
Senate Мрт the е ‘king dom pe fs 
to obta ese the apot: песна doctor 
соатй to either grow or collect the 577 as 
his requiremen anded. In process of time, 
the development of medical mes ge, both 
еб р utical, these two branches 
separated, and the eae chemist 
and ч ggi m existenc In con 
sequence of this, doctors had of necessity 
ui 
b 
don, Edinburgh, and Dublin, drew up pub- 
kw cma ull deseription 
the drugs and chemical d their 
of he 
ceutical preparations which e А ONG had to 
21 
stock and prepare for the purpose of ME 
prescriptions. These books were called Pharm 
opoeias, and the о es were the fore- 
unners of the present-day Briti harma- 
copoeia, which is issued by 
whe 
was continued by a ne ie 
cal curers—the 
v e and qua 
the domestic medicin 
which are chiefly p 
nsed an 
ack мы -mongers W 
e chest and күге тете- 
һег 
dike repared from bs. 
; А LATE CULINARY VARIETY 
Their use is also continued s that ever-increas- 
ing army patent medicine makers who are 
continally ‘tania ing ae ad varii ents before 
the gulli erm great quantity of herbs 
e therefore dol à ployed in this range 
of business. The herbs used have been for many 
ears impor Holland 
ered. But 
the ЖАГУ, of herbal Азна became co 
e herbalist tent medicine maker, 
cantor st iret dc group of very valuable an 
im 
е 
psn carefully aN and their use 
nal agents greatly — 
or many xisted in Eng 
for the сай of багны al plants, notably 
at Hitchin, Long Melford, Mitcham, and Ban 
These farms are carefully a and | scientifcally 
the propert 
plus hae poe mai ecl is offered on the 
