Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1919 — Eucalyptus-Oil Industry. [ARTICLE]

Eucalyptus-Oil Industry.

The pioneer of the Australian eu-calyptus-oil industry was John White, “Surgeon General to the Settlement,’* who came to Sydney with the first fleet, says the Sydney Bulletin. The following passage occurs in his “Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales,” published in London in 1790: The name of peppermint tree has been given to this plant by Mr. White on account of the very great blance between the essential oil drawn from its leaves and that obtained from the peppermint (Mentha piperita") which grows in England. This oil was found by Mr. White to be much more efficacious in removing all cholicky complaints than that of the English peppermint, which he attrib 1 utes to its being less pungent and more aromatic. White not only used the oil in N. S. Wales, but sent some to England. He got it from a tree which he called Eucalyptus piperita, but which was afterwards renamed E. capitellate.