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feet, and to these are fastened, both at the 

 sides and across the tops, two-inch boards, two 

 inches apart. The effect of the sun is there- 

 fore diminished about fifty per cent. Ginseng 



New York 

 7 



Missouri 

 22 



Wisconsin 

 26 



Ohio 

 17 



Rgures Represent Thousands of Dol lars 



PRODUCTION OF GINSENG 



The average annual value of the crop in the 

 four states which lead in its cultivation. 



is planted in beds, six inches apart each way, 

 and it takes six years to reach maturity. Thus, 

 to make sure of having a continuous crop, the 

 grower must plant a new supply each year. 

 Each root weighs about two ounces after dry- 

 ing. M.S. 



Consult Kain's Ginseng ; Harding's Ginseng and 

 Other Medicinal Plants. 



GIORDANO, jordah'no, LUCA (1632-1705), 

 an Italian painter and son of an artist, born 

 at Naples, nicknamed LUCA FA-PRESTO (Luke 

 Work-fast), and THE THUNDERBOLT. At the 

 age of eight he painted a cherub into one of 

 his father's pictures, a feat which induced the 

 viceroy of Naples to recommend the child for 

 study under Spagnoletto. 



In 1687 Charles II of Spain invited him to 

 come to Madrid, where he remained for thir- 

 teen years. An anecdote which shows the 

 rapidity with which he worked relates that 

 while the Queen of Spain was in his presence 

 one day he proceeded to paint a portrait of 

 Her Majesty into the picture on which he was 

 engaged. While at Madrid he painted the 

 main staircase at the Escurial, and ornamented 

 a church. After the death of Charles, in 

 1700, Giordano returned to Naples, having al- 

 ready amassed great wealth. He spent huge 

 sums in acts of munificence and was particu- 

 larly liberal in his aid to the poorer brethren 

 of his art. He left a vast number of works to 

 his credit, among which are Christ Expelling 

 the Traders jrom the Temple, now in the 

 Naples gallery; frescoes of Moses and the 

 Brazen Serpent at Pavia; The Judgment oj 

 Paris in the Berlin Museum; and some fine 

 paintings in the Dresden galleries. 



GIORGIONE, jawrjo'nay (1477-1511), one of 

 the most renowned of Italian painters, the first 

 Venetian to handle brush and colors freely. 

 It was he who modified the older method of 

 the Venetian school and prepared the way for 

 its final form as represented in the works of 

 the greatest Venetian master, Titian. 



His real name was GIORGIO BARBARELLJ,, but 

 by his contemporaries he was called Giorgione, 

 meaning "George the Great," because of his 

 tall figure, his intense love for beauty and 

 greatness of mind. He was much employed 

 in decorative painting, having ornamented the 

 fagades of several large buildings in Venice 

 with frescoes, but because of climatic condi- 

 tions and effects of time these have now mostly 

 perished. His pictures are rare, and there is a 

 diversity of opinion among the best judges 

 concerning the genuineness of many assigned 

 to him. The Concert, in the Pitti Palace, Flor- 

 ence, is one of his most beautiful works ; among 

 other paintings of this master are The Holy 

 Family, in the Louvre, Paris; Jacob Meeting 

 Rachel, in the Dresden gallery; Finding oj 

 Moses, in Milan, and The Sea Storm, in the 

 Academy of Venice. 



GIOTTO, or GIOTTO DI BONDONE, jawt' 

 toh de bohndoh'nay (1276-1336), a painter, 

 sculptor and architect who occupies a promi- 

 nent place in the history of Italian painting. 

 This estimate of him is especially true, if one 

 considers that during the time in which he 

 lived the resources of his art were still in their 

 infancy and that all he was able to achieve 

 was with the limited means of the times. He 

 laid the foundations upon which all the prog- 

 ress of the Renaissance was afterward firmly 

 based. 



Cimabue noticed the young shepherd boy 

 engaged in drawing on large, flat stones. He 

 immediately made the youth his pupil and 

 placed him where he could benefit the world. 

 His greatest architectural masterpiece is the 

 Bell Tower of the Cathedral at Florence, com- 

 monly called Giotto's Tower, exquisite in de- 

 sign and rich in decoration. This was unfin- 

 ished at the time of his death, but he left a 

 perfect model, and it was completed by his 

 pupils. His principal works were his fresco 

 paintings, usually in series, found in all the 

 large cities of Italy. He was a friend of Dante, 

 and his portrait of the poet painted on the wall 

 of the Palace of the Podesta at Florence, 

 recently restored, is one of his ntost famous 

 works. Twenty of his smaller paintings are 

 to be found in the Florence Academy, two in 



