American journal of pharmacy (1909) (14741865136)

Identifier: americanjournal811909phil (find matches)
Title: American journal of pharmacy
Year: 1835 (1830s)
Authors: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science
Subjects: Pharmacy Pharmacology
Publisher: Philadelphia : Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY JANUARY, igog THE CULTIVATION OF ATROPA BELLADONNA INPHILADELPHIA. By John A. Borneman, P.D. During the past fifteen years I have been engaged in the cultivationof Belladonna along with other medicinal plants, and I have at alltimes found the cultivation of the plant profitable and most interest-ing. I find it to be the easiest of all the imported plants to cultivate,and, if a market could be found for the domestic drug, it would payvery well to cultivate it on a large scale. At first considerable diffi-culty was experienced in getting plants from the seed, due I thinkto two causes: (i) inferiority of the seeds imported from Europe,and (2) planting of the seeds too deep in the soil. I tried plantingthe seeds direct in the open, covering them with a slight mulch ofstraw, but found that only one out of every fifty seeds would ger-minate. I then planted the seeds under a cold cover in the early partof April, and found that over 75 per cent, came up. The y