Editorial. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
April,  1900. 
the  cultivation  of  medicinal  plants  in  Russia;1  the  cultivation  of 
medicinal  plants  in  Milly;2  the  cultivation  of  medicinal  plants  in 
Lincolnshire,3  Cambridgeshire,4  and  Banbury;5  the  cultivation  of 
perfume  plants  in  Australia  ;6  cultivation  of  medicinal  plants  in 
Jamaica;7  an  enumeration  of  the  drugs  gathered  in  Pennsylvania, 
together  with  their  localities  and  quantities  ;8  the  names  of  medi- 
cinal plants  of  commercial  value  that  are  gathered  in  North  Caro- 
lina, with  their  value,  and  the  relative  amount  sold  in  this  country 
and  exported.9 
We  are  happy  to  present  elsewhere  a  valuable  paper  by  Mr.  F. 
B.  Kilmer,  on  the  cultivation  of  drugs  in  Europe. 
It  is  the  economical  side  of  the  question  of  the  cultivation  of 
medicinal  plants  that  has  not  been  as  encouraging  as  those  who 
venture  into  new  undertakings  as  a  rule  desire.  While  the  cultivation 
of  medicinal  plants  has  been  successful  as  to  the  quality  of  the  product, 
the  financial  results  have  not  been  so  satisfactory.  Messrs.  Allaire, 
Woodward  &  Co.  state  that  in  regard  to  the  drugs  cultivated  in 
Michigan  the  profits  are  small,  as  all  of  the  articles  cultivated  also 
grow  wild  in  the  South  and  are  gathered  by  negroes  and  the  poorer 
class  of  whites,  who  are  willing  to  work  for  little  money  and  are 
satisfied  with  but-  50  cents  per  day.  We  have  already  alluded  to 
the  fact  that  the  difficulty  of  securing  cheap  labor  is  the  greatest 
hindrance  in  this  country  to  the  obtaining  of  financial  success  in 
the  cultivation  of  certain  useful  plants,  as  those  yielding  camphor, 
rubber,  etc.  It  would  seem,  however,  that  at  tke  present  time  no 
one  need  expect  immediate  financial  returns  in  the  cultivating  of 
medicinal  plants  unless  the  item  of  labor  is  also  considered  along 
with  the  other  aspects  of  the  subject.    Much  experimentation  is, 
1  Pharm.  Jour.  Trans.,  1897,  p.  58. 
2 Rep.  de  Pharm.,  1892,  p.  375  ;  also  Pharm.  Jour.  Trans.,  1892,  p.  184. 
3  Pharm.  Jour.  Trans.,  1881,  pp.  237-239. 
4  Pharm.  Jour.  Trans.,  1889,  p.  122;  reprinted  in  Amer.  Jour.  Pharm., 
1889,  p.  510. 
6  Pharm.  Jour.  Trans.,  1877,  June  16;  reprinted  in  Amer.  Jour.  Pharm., 
1877,  p.  406. 
6  Amer.  Drug.,  1896,  pp.  327-328;  356-357;  abstract  in  Proc.  A.  Ph.  A.y 
1896,  p.  499. 
7  Chem.  and  Drug.,  1889,  p.  219 ;  abstract  in  Proc,  A.  Ph.  A.,  1890,  p.  397. 
8  Proc.  Penna.  Pharm.  Assoc.,  1886,  pp.  140-148. 
9  Proc.  A.  Ph.  A.,  1894,  p.  210;  reprinted  in  Amer.  Jour.  Pharm.,  1894,  p. 
486. 
