Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Pamphlet First Edition The first poppies cultivated in this country for the purpose of extracting opium were grown by Mr. John Ball, of Williton, in 1794. In the 1790s when the Society of Arts in London encouraged the growing of pharmaceutical plants. The society offered cash prizes to successful opium growers. One winner was John Ball, who produced a bumper crop on his land in Somerset, selling the harvest to local apothecaries, but their cultivation never became permanently established. 7pp complete in itself appears to be extracted from a larger anthology or periodical.
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