Harlan P. Kelsey, Tremont Building, Boston, and Kawana, N. C. 
Fig. 4- Wild root (human form). 
{Bull. Dept. of AgT., Penna.) 
After filling the box in this manner, see that there are several inches of the cover- 
ing over the last layer of seed, to prevent drying out. A wire netting of fine mesh 
should be securely tacked over all to prevent the attacks 
of mice. The whole should be kept in a moist cellar, or 
may be left out of doors if the box is plunged level to the 
top in soil. 
In planting the seeds, they should be scattered evenly 
and thinly on a prepared bed and covered with an inch 
or more of fine soil. The planting being done in the fall 
(twelve months after the seeds are collected and stratified), 
they should then be covered with leaves and straw, or 
similar covering, over which brush is laid. In the early 
spring the brush is removed and lath shade covers substi- 
tuted. 
The beds may be made either 4 or 6 feet wide, and 
any length, and should always be surrounded by boards 
firmly nailed to posts, giving a rest for the lath shades. 
The boards used are of ordi- 
nary inch boxing, and should 
extend 2 feet or more from 
the ground. 
Where 6-feet-wide beds are made, the lath covers are 
made as shown in the illustration; viz., 4 by 6 feet. Ordi- 
nary laths are nailed i inch apart to 6-fcet strips i inch 
thick and 2 inches wide, and then braced. Where the bed 
is made 4 feet wide, the laths are simply nailed to other 
laths with clinching nails. The latter size, being lighter, 
arc the most easily handled covers, but the larger beds and 
shades are the most economical of room and lumber where 
the planting is on an extended scale. These 
lath covers are to stay on all summer, to be 
replaced by mulching and brush in winter. 
The beds and subsequent treatment after 
planting are the same for l)oth seeds 
and plants. 
Planting. — After the season's 
growth, the seedlings should be trans- 
planted into permanent beds in the fall, 
after the tops have died down. Some 
prefer to wait till the second autumn, 
but the roots are more liable to be in- 
jured, and it is very important that a 
good, clean tap-root is preserved, mak- 
ing at maturity a larger and more sala- 
ble article, that will command the best 
price. 
A planting-board (see Fig. 7) is 
made of :J|'-inch white pine, or similar 
wood, 5 feet 9 inches or 3 feet 9 inches 
long, and i foot wide, to easily fit in 
the 4-feet and 6-fcet beds. 
FIG. s. Dried toot of Ginsrni: from wild plant, ready for the roatket. This board is braced by light strips 
(RuU. li.Div.of PuMicMorii.V.S.Dtpt.of Agr.) tacked across the ends and middle to 
