Southern France (extending Northward to Lyons and Dauphiny),
Upper Italy, Corsica, Calabria
and Northern Africa. In cultivation it grows very well in the open air throughout the greater part
of Germany and as far North as Norway. Dried lavender flowers were the object of some trade in
the South of Europe. Lavender and orange flowers were exported form France in 1870
to the extent
of 110,958 kg (244,741 lbs), chiefly to the Barbary states (N. Africa), Turkey and America. There
is no data given for the amount of volatile lavender oil imported into England, where it was much
used as a perfume and was considered to have stimulant properties (Fluckiger and Hanbury, 1885).
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