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_ Provence cannot grasp that as honorary pe dent a man coulech haves been. shi 
who served the Boches, those poisoners from Leipzig, those distillers from Boc 
on the Elbe and Barréme. Si iy aa 
Although we attach but little value to Mr. Bi otetcel cS arguments, we ehiven 
them here in order to show our readers the tone a certain French chauvihied papers 
and what the public there will ogee! 
Cultivation of medicinal plants. — The endeavour to make us indepentent of ee 
countries with regard to the supply of medicinal plants has called forth the publicatior : 
of numerous articles on such plants and the foundation of the periodical “Heil- und 
Gewiirzpflanzen” (medicinal and spice piants)'). We here submit an extract of an article 
by H. Geiger?), which appeared in said monthly paper: — he 
One either collects young wild plants of valerian (Valeriana officinalis, L. Valorsoneate 
and plants them about one foot apart on a field, or one gets young plants from seeds _ 
during the summer and sets them on a field in the following spring. As valerian seeds. 4 
are very small, they must be strewn on garden beds and pressed down with a flat’ = 
piece of wood or with a spade. These seed-beds ought to be sprayed, not watered ~ 
in the ordinary way. The field ought to be fertile and situated in the neighbourhood 
of water. Valerian demands but little care; hoeing it once will do. The plants may 4 
be dug up already in October of the first year. ef 
Angelica (Archangelica officinalis, Hoffm., Umbelliferc) is orogens ae means of ¢ 
seeds. Geiger recommends making little furrows with a hoe, in autumn, about 30.8 
to 40 cm. apart and to sow very sparsely with the hand or to drill the seeds. One | ss 
then rakes and harrows. In April of the next year, the young plants— become visible — 
and, aided by repeated hoeing, grow fairly quickly and can be dug out with 
a spade, in autumn. The strongly interlaced plants are separated and, after the 
leaves have-been removed, planted out on stubble-fields, manured with stable-dung, 
50 cm. apart in every direction. In order to protect them against frost, they are often 
covered with long straw. Geiger recommends to harrow or loosen the soil with a hoe, 
in the following spring, before the young -shoots have come through, and to strew 
1 cwt. of superphosphate of ammonia (9:9) per every 5000 sq.m., to repeat. hoeing several 
times and to weed at least once, in May. Weeding is oo necessary any more, as 
soon as the plants have developed sufficiently to cover the ground, thus keepin: 
down the weeds. Careful growers remove the flower- ace at an ha: oe so tl 
all the nourishment goes into the roots. Seg 
Angelica must not be. grown on soil freshly ee, as the plants then ‘a 
from hair-worms. When setting the young plants, they must be CkAS and tho of 
already attacked, removed. rps 
The seeds of the common. chamomile (Matriearit Chamomilla, Eat Cimpomitehe Mg 
strewn sparsely by hand on beds 1.4 m. wide, pressed down a little with a spa ane 
sprayed carefully; weeding is not necessary. 
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‘) Comp. Report October 1917, 110. — *) Heil- und Gewtirzpfianzen 1 (1917), “2, 68, a 
