144 



INDEX. 



Page 



Shade, lath 34, 62, 107, 113, 118 



Shade, low lath 36 



Shade, planting annual 23 



Shades 33 



Shade, storing lath 35 



Shade, vertical 36 



Shipment, direct 97 



Shipments not uniform.. 98 



Shipping 46 



Sifting seed 18 



Size and age 116, 127 



Size of nursery bed 23 



Sloping beds 20 



Slugs 66 



Smith quoted, Dr.... 131 



Smuggling 96 



Snails 36, 66 



Soil 19, 21, 59, 60, 113, 116, 125 



Soil and shade 61 



Soil, avoid poor- 33 



Soil, change of 25, 61 



Southern plants in the North 



57, 58, 123, 128 



Southern exposures poorest 19 



Sowing at once 16 



Space needed for ounce of seed 23 



Spade for digging 16 



Speyer & Sons' prices 81 



Spraying 68, 129 



Spring-set plants 16, 118 



Sprouting first spring 59, 69, 123 



Staminate flowers 55 



Stanton's letter, Mr 49, 125 



Statistics of export 47 



Storing 15 



Storing the seed 17 



Stove drying 42 



Stratifying seed 59, 123 



Succession of crops 61, 125 



Sun drying 42 



Superstitions 42 



Supply and demand 81, 82, 84, 85 



Texture of soil for older plants 26 



Thieves 31, 67 



Three-year-old root 11 



Time not to dig 13 



Time plants appear 5 



Time seedlings appear 28 



Time to dig 14 



Time to mature 30 



Time to transplant 15 



Trade started in American ginseng.. 3 



Transplanting 63 



Transplanting, time for 15 



Treatment for permanent beds 30 



Tree roots 23 



Trimming roots 29 



Trowel for digging 16 



Trowel for setting 30 



Undersized roots .- 41 



Uses of ginseng 2 



Variety, new 70 



Walks, width of 25 



Wallace Bros.' prices 80 



Washing 42 



Water test 59 



Weeding 26, 29 



Weeding horse 26 



Weight after drying 72, 110 



Weight and age 73, 110 



Wells & Co.'s letter 82 



Width of beds 23 



Wild root vs. cultivated.. 40, 79, 85, 121 



Wild supply declining , 78 



Wilting . 129 



Wood ashes 33 



