GINSENG. 



CHAPTER III. 

 GINSENG. 

 NATURAL HOME OF THE PLANT. The Chinese ginseng is said 

 to grow principally between the 39th and 47th degrees of north 

 latitude, and between the 126th and 136th degrees of east longi- 

 tude- The American plant has about the same range of latitude, 

 except that it extends farther south along the mountains (Fig. 4). 

 It grows in rich and damp, — but not wet and muddy, — soils, such 

 as prevail in hardwood forests, and is found in the following states; 



Maine 



New Hampshire 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Rhode Island 



Connecticut 



New York 



New Jersey (Northern) 



Pennsylvania 



Delaware 



Maryland 



Virginia 



West Virginia 



North Carolina (Western) 



It formerly grew in abundance over large areas of these 

 states, but it has been so energeticallj' hunted, and at the same 

 time the forest area has been so much diminished, that the root in 

 its wild state has become all but extinct- In central Wisconsin 

 the plant is most likely to be found on the ridges of such forests 



South Carolina (Western) 



Georgia (AVestern) 



Alabama (Northern) 



Kentucky 



Arkansas 



Tennessee 



Ohio 



Indiana 



Illinois 



Michigan 



Wisconsin 



Minnesota 



Iowa 



Missouri 



