Ogden Daily Standard | 1893-03-12 | Page 3 | The Licorice Plant

the plant the licorice to a adnall shrub with light foliage growing to about 3 buet high where its roots reach tho water it growa without any cultivation no linda are least or thy no objection 19 made to its being cultivated it growa on red earth soil mut also on light amoss aandy the wood it best provided it has plenty of water and the ground is not more than CO yards from tho actual river tream tho wood after being dug up grow better afterward tho time of collecting i generally during the winter but it is possible all the year round the root when dug la full of water and must bo allowed to dry a process which takes the best part of a year it 1 then sawed or cut into small pieces from six inched to a foot long the good and sound pieces aro kept and the rotten ones are used for arewood ure wood it la then taken in native boats to Bus whence it la shipped in pressed balea to london there to america where it 1 used largely in the manufacture of tobacco boston traveller