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support themselves by sfrowing- g-inseng- in 

 their little gardens. While it is possible 

 that this may be done, I would much rather 

 advise the growing of lettuce or other staple 

 g-arden stuff that will sell in your own 

 market; and until our doctors find that gin- 

 seng has some medical value, I do not think 

 it a very respectable business, for men or 

 women either, to encourage a heathen super- 

 stition. If the intelligent physicians of the 

 United States and the rest of the world can 

 discover by repeated tests that ginseng has 

 a commercial value in medicine, it would 



be a different thing; but so far, even the 

 pamphlets and advertisements from those 

 who offer seed and plants for sale have 

 been unable to scrape up anj' thing worth 

 mentioning- in regard to its real value in 

 materia niedica. 



Prof. L. A. Clinton, Director of Storrs 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Connecti- 

 cut, says: 



I have investigated carefully the ginseng industry 

 of Central New York, having visited many gardens, 

 and I am certain there is no profit whatever for the 

 ordinary farmer. If one desires to purchase a few 

 ginseng seeds, or, better yet, a few ginseng roots, to 



VIEW OF THE SAME GREENfHOUSE WITH VENTILATORS AIX OPEN AND SDUTH SASH RE- 

 MOVED, AS WE HAVE IT IN SUMMER TIME. 



MY CIvOTH COVERED COLD FRAME WITH THE COVERING RAISED. 



