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indigenous plants and some 30-40 imported.
Roses were grown to make rosewater and attar of roses but never
for personal or house adornment. So no one would be so tempted, all roses
were picked without stems. "At Union Village, Ohio, wagonloads of rose
blooms were stacked in the herbhouses, where acres of damask roses were
raised for the sole purpose of being converted into rosewater." ^
In 1834, extracts were offered of: cicuta, henbane, stramonium,
dandelion, garden lettuce, hops, belladonna, butternut and boneset. Waters
were offered of: winebitters and honey, lavender, cologne, peach, and
buckthorn and sarsaparilla syrups. Ointments being manufactured were:
sambucus, althea, savin and elder. Barks, stripped, ground and papered
were: cherry, boxwood, ash, hemlock, bayberry, oak, elder and elm.
Roots, dug and dried, were: poke, parsley, stoneroot, garget, peony,
pleurisy, slippery and yarrow. They offered the leaves of: burdock, rose,
thornapple, hardhack and raspberry; and the seed of: coriander, larkspur
and fennel. Other herb items were: bugle, balsam, bittersweet, borage,
balm, catnip, coltsfoot, comfrey, celandine, cranesbill, cohosh, carduus,
cassena, clary, cleavers, centaurea, camomile, digitalis, yellow dock,
elacampane, ergot, foxglove, fleabane, frostwort, feverfew, goldthread,
golden seal, hyocyamus, hops, horehound, hyssop, henbane, hollyhock,
Indian hemp, ivy, johnswort, liverwort, lobelia, yellow pond lily, life ever-
lasting, marshmallow, motherwort, mullein, maidenhair, poppy flowers,

23. Ibid. p. 126