Abstract
The oils of dill, lemon-grass, tansy, wormseed and wormwood are distilled from cultivated plants; those of cedarleaf, cedarwood, erigeron, pennyroyal, sassafras, sweet birch, wintergreen and witch-hazel from wild plants; and together they all constitute a minor industry for which production figures are not readily available.
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Sievers, A.F. The production of minor essential oils in the united states. Econ Bot 1, 148–160 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02859227
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