Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-08-12
REMARKS ON VEGETABLES.
THYME.


No more, IN, goats, shall behold you climb
The sleepy cliffs, or crop The flow'ry thyme ;
dryden.
In ancient times, hocks Of goats and shee,
were sent from many remote parts, 10 feed OF
The thyme Which grew so abundsnlly on Oh,
rocky parts of Laneuedoc aud Narbonne, am
this pasturage yielded great revenue to ii,
lnhah'tenls OF hat country, daring the heie
oil homsh luxury, on account Of .le high flavor
1t gave 10 the thousands OF cattle winch were
sent 10 that province.
Where the Wild thyme perfumes the purnle
heath,
Long loiIerng there your aeecy tribes ex-
lend
Shenione.
Philips in his History Of Vegetables, saws, a
long residence on and near the South Downs
OF Sussex, gave the author of this work an CD.
porluniIy OF ascertaining, that those hocks
Ehch led On hills most sbounding with THYME.
produced mutton Of very superior relish /;
and II cannot have escaped the notice of he
epicures in launches, that The highest flavor
ed VenISon is always from arid hlIly parks.
where this PENETRATING pun provoking herb
abounds
ANS plant was thought excellent in suffnmi-
CATIONS TO revive the spirits and by it's extra
ordinary lragrancy it WAS deemed CON Portable
10 He brain and highly exhllaraing 10 the
heart. A htile thyme mixed with wine, gives
4 a most grateful SAVIOR, aud both the si.pli
'rad 1"ste OF Il are very penetrating whence il
heco'nrs sudorfc, NEEDING, penetrating, heal.
'"g, aud opening is OF service in the fatuIent
S'ic' and restores a decayed appetite,
TOBACCO,
iooacco was brought TO England by Sir
'ancs Drake, in 1910, who that year made
=" nrst expedition against the Spaniards in
pooh Ame RIGA Lobel informs Us, that il had
oeeh cultivated in England previously TO that
na'e' sir Waller Releigh carried the Virgin
'an TOBACCO 10 England about the year $50,
anu 10 related that he WAS the first who bot
."oacco INTO repute but by the caution he took
:" smoking II privately, il appears he did not
'h'end that il SHOULD be copied. But sitting
Que nay IN a deep meditation, with a pine in
"'s NOUN, he inadvertently called TO his man
10 nring him iankard Of small ale the fellow
.om'ns INTO the Tuom threw all the iauer in
"s masters face, and running down stairs,
"",ea ont Fire help! Sir Walter has sIudi
gu III MS heads on FIRE, and ,he smoke bursts
V U"' 81 ms mouth and nose After this, Sir
""'er made II 10 secret, aud took two pipes
1''' oe'ore he went 10 be beheaded.
French Natural Historian (Valmont Bo.
n'"ie) relates, that in 1850 Maryland and Vir-
s"'a produced TO England more than 100 900
nus OF tobacco of which, he ssys, the English
"rP' one nall for their own consumption, and
:, ported 'ne remainder TO France for which
,ea 'd' yer country paid snnuaIly the sum of
-'..uo,ooo avres, OF about S!,7Ui 1898 %.
A"s vegetable still continues 10 form so COO.
< 'ao'e branch of Commerce in England.
s'ors>room has lately been erected in the
roooon Docks, for the exclusive purpose of
"ou@ng tobacco, which covers with one ,oofu
- o' nearly six acres OF ground, aud which
= pe'""ps the largest room ever built. This
Store room is, when empty, an ol,iec,
:. "onuef out on seeing il full oitobacco our
'ha Neneht must he increased. by rejoicing on
ae eseoi OF The trade Of Eng land, n,ni on The
destination of such enormous heaps OF
Pu'tihfd nauseous leaves
ri.s "tnhe says. IN his History of Virginia, pub.
1'ged IN l77O, tina, HE Virginians e1por, anu.
-'''' iof'2 Thousand hogsheads OF this