Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants. A. R. Harding
rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_3d0dba3d-bf69-53e1-a912-2df4c078677d">Dug and Dried—Ready for Market A Three Year Old Cultivated Root Bed of Mature Ginseng Plants Under Lattice Some Thrifty Plants—An Ohio Garden New York Grower's Garden Forest Bed of Young "Seng" These Plants However Are Too Thick A Healthy Looking "Garden"—"Yard" Root Resembling Human Body Wild Ginseng Roots Pennsylvania Grower's Garden Ginseng (Panax Quinquefolium) Lady Slipper Young Golden Seal Plant in Bloom Golden Seal Plants Thrifty Golden Seal Plant Golden Seal in an Upland Grove Locust Grove Seal Garden Golden Seal (Hydrastis Canadensis) Flowering Plant and Fruit Golden Seal Rootstock Black Cohosh (Cimicifuga Racemosa), Leaves, Flowering Spikes and Rootstock Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum Thalictroides) Canada Snakeroot (Asarum Canadense) Virginia Serpentaria (Aristolochia Serpentaria) Pokeweed (Phytolacca Decandra), Flowering and Fruiting Branch Pokeweed Root May-Apple (Podophyllum Pellatum), Upper Portion of Plant with Flower, and Rootstock Seneca Snakeroot (Polygala Senega), Flowering Plant with Root Large Yellow Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium Hirsutum) Bethroot (Trillium Erectum) Culver's Root (Veronica Virginica) Flowering Top and Rootstock Stoneroot (Collinsonia Canadensis) Crawley-Root (Corallorhiza Odontorhiza) Marginal-Fruited Shield-Fern (Dryopteris Marginalis) Goldthread (Coptis Trifolia) Twinleaf (Jeffersonia Diphylla) Plant and Seed Capsule Canada Moonseed (Menispermum Canadense) Wild Turnip (Arisaema Triphyllum) Black Indian Hemp (Apocynum Cannabinum), Flowering Portion, Pods, and Rootstock Chamaelirium (Chamaelirium Luteum) Wild Yam (Dioscorea Villosa) Skunk-Cabbage (Spathyema Foetida) American Hellebore (Veratrum Viride) Water-Eryngo (Eryngium Yuccifolium) Yellow Jasmine (Gelsensium Sempervirens) Sweet Flag (Acorus Calamus) Blue Flag (Iris Versicolor) Crane's-bill (Geranium Maculatum), Flowering Plant, Showing also Seed Pods and Rootstock Dandelion (Taraxacum Officinale) Soapwort (Saponaria Officinalis) Burdock (Arctium Lappa), Flowering branch and Root Yellow Dock (Rumex Crispus), First Year's Growth Broad-Leaved Dock (Rumex Obtusifolius), Leaf, Fruiting Spike and Root American Colombo (Frasera Carolinensis), Leaves, Flowers, and Seed Pods Couch-Grass (Agropyron Repens) Echinacea (Brauneria Augustifolia) Aletris (Aletris Farinosa) Wild Indigo (Baptisia Tinctoria), Branch Showing Flowers and Seed Pods Pleurisy Root (Asclepias Tuberosa) Bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), Flowering Plant with Rootstock Pinkroot (Spigelia Marilandica) Indian Physic (Porteranthus Trifoliatus) Wild Sarsaparilla (Aralia Nudicaulis) American Angelica (Angelica Atropurpurea) Comfrey (Symphytum Officinale) Elecampane (Inula Helenium) Queen-of-the-Meadow (Eupatorium Purpureum) Hydrangea (Hydrangea Arborescens) Oregon Grape (Berberis Aquifolium)
INTRODUCTION
When the price of Ginseng advanced some years ago hundreds engaged in the business who knew little or nothing of farming, plant raising and horticulture. That they largely failed is not to be wondered at. Later many began in a small way and succeeded. Many of these were farmers and gardeners. Others were men who had hunted, trapped and gathered "seng" from boyhood. They therefore knew something of the peculiarities of Ginseng.
It is from the experience of these men that this work is largely made up—writings