Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1919 — English-Grown Belladonna. [ARTICLE]

English-Grown Belladonna.

Belladonna, which before the war came almost exclusively from Germany. is now being cultivated at Dorking on a scale that will prevent any possibility of dearth in the future, and flolTors,who partlaily rtisconttnued its use, may now prescribe it as freely as they did before the war, says the London Times. The first of the Dorking plantations was started immediately after the war broke out, but tire difficulty of obtaining the seed, and more especially the slow growth of the plant, in the initial stages, prevented the drug being produced in large quantities until this year. Next year a still larger quantity will be placed on the market. Practically the whole of the plantations are on waste ground that could not possibly produce food. If the seed is sown in the* open. It takes four years before sufficient herb can be cut to make a paying crop.