British opium. : The sum of thirty guineas, being the premium offered in the year 1822, was this session given to Messrs. Cowley & Staines, of Winslow, Bucks, for cultivating 12 acres of poppies, ...

Date:
1824
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Credit: British opium. : The sum of thirty guineas, being the premium offered in the year 1822, was this session given to Messrs. Cowley & Staines, of Winslow, Bucks, for cultivating 12 acres of poppies, ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r f//AY ff Iy AGRICULTURE. 9 No. III. BRITISH OPIUM. The sum of Thirty GUINEAS, the premium offered in the year 1822, was this session given to Messrs. Cowley and Staines, o/’ Winslow, Bucks, for cul¬ tivating twelve acres of Poppies, and obtaining therefrom 19<i/ bs. of Opium. The following communications have been received from the candidates on the subject. Sir, The Society of Arts, &c. having*, by the offer, in 1822-23, of the premium No. 29, extended their encouragement to the cultivation of the papaver somniferum for opium in 1823, we respectfully offer ourselves as candidates for that premium, having in that year collected one hundred and ninety-six pounds of opium from poppies growing on twelve acres, one rod, and thirteen poles of land. The enclosed specimen will exemplify the quality of the opium, which appears to be precisely similar to that which we have obtained in the last few years. The general system of cultivation pursued by us last year was nearly the same as described in the 40th vol. of the Society’s Transactions. The intervals between the rows were diminished from twenty-one to twenty inches; the seed was got in between the 14th of February and the ()th of March; the crop was very abundant, and the heads remarkably large. The interval diminished an inch was