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a fimiiiar plant in this country. They 

 confirmed in their conjecture by confidering 

 that feveral fettlements in Canada, ly undeir 

 the fame latitude with thofe parts of the 

 Ghinefe Tartary, and China, where the true 

 Ginfeng grows wild. They fucceeded in 

 their attempt, and found the fame Ginfeng 

 wild and abundant in feveral parts of North* 

 America, both in French and Englifo plant- 

 ations, in plain parts of the woods. It is 

 fond of {hade, and of a deep rich mould, 

 and of land which is neither wet nor high. 

 It is not every where very common, for 

 fometimes one may fearch the woods for 

 the fpace of feveral miles without finding a 

 fingle plant of it ; but in thofe fpots where 

 it grows it is always found in great abund^- 

 ance. It flowers in May and "June, and its 

 berries are ripe at the end of Auguft. It 

 bears tranfplanting very well, and will foon 

 thrive in its new ground. Some people 

 here, who have gathered the berries, and 

 put them into their kitchen gardens, told 

 me that they lay one or two years in the 

 ground without coming up. The Iroaueje, 

 or Five (Six) Nations, call the Ginfeng 

 roots Garangtogingj which it is faid figni- 

 fies a child, the roots bearing a faint re- 

 femblance to it : but others are of opinion 

 that they mean the thigh and leg by it, and 

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