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k fimiliar plant in this country. They wer® 

 confirnried in their conjediiire by confidering 

 that feveral fettlements in Canada, ly under 

 the fame latitude with thofe parts of the 

 Chinefe 'Tartary, and C/ujia, where the true 

 Gi?jfe?2g grows wild. They fucceeded in 

 their attempt, and found the fame Ginfeng 

 wild and abundant in feveral parts oi ISlorth- 

 America^ both in French and E?iglifi plant- 

 ations, in plain parts of the woods. It is 

 fond of fhade, 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 Auguji. It 

 bears tranfplanting very well, and will fooii 

 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. Tht Iroquefcy 

 • or Five (Six) Nations, call the Ginfeng 

 roots Garangtoging, which it is fa id figni- 

 fies a child, the roots bearing a faint re- 

 femblance to it : but others are of opinion 

 that they mean the thigh and \c^ by it, and 

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