In article questions of selection of mint – a valuable aromatic plant in our country are considered. Using wild-growing types of mints as donors of the economic and useful signs and also various methods of selection – clonal selection, hybridization, a mutagenesis by selectors are created the high-yield, steady against biotic and abiotic factors of the external environment, adapted to cultivation to concrete soil climatic conditions grades of mint of different purpose. Their comparative sortoispytaniye in the conditions of the Nonchernozem zone of the Russian Federation showed that on set of economic and valuable signs Medichka grades, Lekarstvennaya 4, Yantarnaya and Aromatnaya, possessing a good bouquet and aroma of an essential oil which are the most perspective for cultivation on a mint leaf, whereas grades the Moskvichka and Kubanskaya 6 with the increased content of menthol in oil more are suitable for production of an essential oil and mentholum were allocated.The profitability level of peppermint production due to the peculiarities of the varieties, their yield, resistance to abiotic and biotic factors, and the high costs of manual labor during planting, depends on the region of cultivation. In most cases, this is due to the shortcomings of the existing assortment of this crop in a given zone. A set of varieties is needed that can use the favorable environmental factors (natural and anthropogenic) with the greatest efficiency and stand against stress factors simultaneously. The further selection work with mint directed to increase in content biologically of the active materials in a feed stock, has to be conducted with use of methods of genomic selection.