In order to prevent the t-xt< rmiinri- »n <>l the i.in->ng plant in Canada, 

 the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario has passed a 

 Statute (54 Victoria, 1891) enacting that— 



"Except for the purpose of clearing or bringing land into cultivation, 

 no person shall, between the first day of January and the first day of 

 September in any year, cut, root up, gather, or destroy the plant known 

 by the name of ginseng, whenever such plant may be found growing in 

 a wild or uncultivated state." 



The penalty for contravening the provisions of tin- Art is " not less 

 " than five dollars or more than twenty dollars together with the costs 

 " of prosecution, and one-half of such penalty shall be paid to the 

 •• prosecutor." 



The search for Ginseng roots appeals to be as keenly followed 



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that if the steps 



" From Minnesota to Carolina the gathering [of Ginseng n 

 been carried on until, in the places Avhere this beautiful plant a 

 so abundant that one could hardly step without treading 01 

 single roots can now be found. It is only a question of tin 

 Ginseng at the present rate of destruction will be utterly < 

 from our forests. Last year more of the root was exported to China 

 from this country by 80,000 pounds than was ever sent before in any 

 single year, and notwithstanding the growing scarcity there are 10 

 persons hunting for the roots now where there was one ten years ago." 



Until quite recently there appears to have been a general opinion in 

 America that Ginseng could not he successfully grown as a garden crop. 

 The attempt, it is said, ! --by planting the roofs 



and sowing the seed, but they never grew." Mr. G. Stanton. Summit 

 Station, New York, who may be regarded as the pioneer of the move- 

 ment to cultivate Ginseng, states : — " My first .-owing of seed did not pro- 

 •' duce a plant ; 2(H) root- which I put into the ground in 1886 made 

 •' little growth the first year, and the outlook was - unfavourable that 

 " I almost abandoned the attempt. In J887 I put in some roots and 

 " sowed some ^eeds. and the next \vav my plants made a better showing. 

 *' I then commenced to study the habits and charact ristics of the plant, 

 " and with the exp< Hence gained mv success lias been complete. I 

 " had thousands of fine plants growing in my ground in 1891 ... in 

 « my opinion the growing of the plant can bo "made profitable, even if 

 " the root does not bring more than two dollar?! per pound." The 

 price r< dise ! r C'a ida n I89<> !'< G iseng, was from three dollars to 

 three dollars 50 cents per pound for dry roots. 



In August last the Marquess of Lorn- for wauled to Kew an interest- 

 ing letter received by him from the United States respecting the 

 cultivation of Ginseng. The plant was not at the time in the Kew 

 collections, but application was made for seed, which was received from 

 Mr. Stanton, together with the following letter in regard to the treat- 

 ment and the general cultivation of the plant: — 



l your request of the 20th August, I send you by 

 Giuseng seed, which I hope will reach you in good 



