Eric Sloane: A Reverence For Wood

Readers of this blog might recognize this Sassafrass tree from an earlier posting.  The tree is doing remarkably well.  Excerpted from our original sassafras posting:

“Sassafras is a tree very closely associated with America, although few now aew aware of its history.  As the early American wonder drug, it was our first money crop and object-in-trade of the first American cartel.  In 1622 the Jamestown Colony was committed by the crown to produce thirty tons of Sassafras, with a penalty of ten pounds of tobacco on each man who did not produce one hundred pounds of it.”

– Eric Sloane A Reverence for Wood p. 91