DANDELIONS HELP
BRITAIN'S NEW EXPORT OF HERBAL DRUGS Britain is growing dandelions for export. It is one of the herbal drugs which the country used to import from France, Germany, Belgium and Italy. Chief in wartime import anee among them are aconite,' belladonna, Digitalis, henbane, stamonium and valerian. All are now being grown in sufficient quantities to meet British war-time needs after existing big stocks are done, and British drug growers are even increasing their average to supply the foreign market. The U.S.A. are big buyers. The plants are exotic and fastidious in regard to climate and soil, yet although America has many! climates and many soil types, the plants do not thrive there and they are therefore being imported from Great Britain. Among the chief herbal drugs 1 now being grown in Britain for the home and export markets are digi>talis, stramonium, aconite, valerian, pyre thrum, broom, dandelion, tarragon. and calendula. Britain's most important drug farms are in the south of England. There is also one in Scotland. Indeed,, the oldest of them all, the Physic Garden, was founded in Edinburgh by a hospital in 1661.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 239, 18 November 1940, Page 2
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187DANDELIONS HELP Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 239, 18 November 1940, Page 2
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