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Show HERB FARMS TO BE COMMON Comparatively New Branch of Horti-culture Horti-culture Is Becoming Popular in England. Without doubt herb culture is the coming science. One of the most arresting ar-resting facts in the domain of medicines medi-cines today is the progress inade in pharmacy, Loudon Tit-Bits states. Herbs, from having been used ad lib. in medieval times, fell into disrepute, dis-repute, and in modern times herbal remedies, apart from drugs whlcn could be numbered on the fingers of one hand, were tabooed, save by the enlightened few. Herb farming is a new branch of horticulture, writes A. R. Horwood, F. L. Si, in the Homeopathic World. It is an interesting and intellectual pursuit specially suited for women. Before the war there were numerous herb farms run on commercial lines i by firms of manufacturing chemists, j But there were no schools for the training of amateurs. Since the war, however, a school and herb farm has been started at Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, by Mrs. M. Grieve, F. R. H. S. One of the main objects of herb farming is to cultivate plants of medicinal medi-cinal value. Besides the drug plants in general use, such as belladonna, henbane, fox-glove, aconite, datura and so on, a vast number of herbs whose real value Is known are used in medicine, including such common plants as dandelion, couch grass, red poppy, colchlcum, barberry, chamomile, dill, fennel, blessed thistle, valerian and male fern. |