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Shortage of Lavender Oil

Nature volume 146, page 304 (1940)Cite this article

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IN NATURE of August 10, p. 193, in a note on “This Season's English Herbs”, the statement is made—“a fair yield of English lavender oil may be expected for this season; more of the flowers will go to the still and less to Covent Garden in bunches for street vendors, and thus at least part of the shortage due to the lack of French oil will be made good”.

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REDGROVE, H. Shortage of Lavender Oil. Nature 146, 304 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146304a0

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