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