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entire  harvest,  although  not  a  single  seedling  has  been  put  out  of 
doors.  There  are  others  who  are  devoting  considerable  attention 
to  this  same  plant.  Datura  Stramonium  is  likewise  being  grown  to 
a  very  large  extent.  Hyoscyamus  niger  has  given  us  considerable 
trouble,  but  the  particular  obstacles  in  growing  this-  plant  have  been 
surmounted,  so  that  we  are  likely  to  secure  fairly  good  supplies  of 
henbane. 
Many  of  the  drugs  for  which  standards  are  provided  by  the  U.  S. 
Pharmacopoeia  are  used  in  sufficiently  large  quantities  in  other  in- 
dustries, so  that  growing  of  the  plants  yielding  them  is  attracting 
very  wide  interest.  For  instance  licorice  root,  of  which  there  are 
thousands  of  pounds  imported  from  Russia  and  Spain,  is  to  be 
grown  on  a  rather  large  scale  again  in  New  Jersey.  One  thousand 
acres  of  barren  land  in  New  Jersey  are  to  be  given  over  to  the  culti- 
vation of  the  licorice  plant,  and  already  some  thirty  acres  have  been 
planted,  using  the  rhizomes  which  were  imported  from  Mediter- 
ranean countries.  This  should  prove  to  be  a  very  good  paying  crop 
and  it  might  be  encouraged  among  a  number  of  farmers,  providing 
that  some  bureau  of  marketing  be  established  to  assemble  the  crops. 
A  priori,  one  would  rather  expect  that  this  would  prove  to  be  a  very 
favorable  crop  in  the  West  where  Glycyrrhiza  lepidota  abounds  in  a 
wild  state.  Of  course,  some  interests  might  be  developed  in  the 
licorice  fern,  Poly  podium  vulgare,  which  is  quite  common  in  the 
state  of  Washington,  and  contains  a  principle  resembling  the  gly- 
cyrrhizin  of  licorice. 
The  resumption  of  the  production  of  camphor  in  the  United 
States  is  of  very  great  interest.  Work  has  been  resumed  at  the 
2,000-acre  camphor  grove  near  Satsuma,  Fla.,  which  is  operated  by 
New  York  capital.  For  some  years  experiments  have  been  con- 
ducted by  the  Bureau  of  Plant  Industry  of  the  U.  S.  Department  of 
Agriculture,  including  the  propaganda  and  culture  of  camphor  and 
the  laboratory  and  factory  phases  of  camphor  production.  In  order 
that  the  production  be  economically  conducted,  it  is  necessary  that 
the  operations  be  performed  on  a  large  planting  scale.  Recently  the 
Department  of  Agriculture  has  built  a  "  trimmer  "  machine  for  cut- 
ting down  the  stems  and  it  is  an  excellent  illustration  of  one  of  the 
ways  in  which  the  government  endeavors  to  cooperate  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  new  industries  which  should  have  a  healthy  existence  in 
this  country. 
There  are  strong  indications  that  the  farming  of  perfume-yield- 
