shade and mulch there need be little fear of wetds 
as is the case with vegetable gardens, this is par¬ 
ticularly true if the ground has been previously 
summer fallowed. 
Excepting the shade requirement ginseng will 
grow and thrive under the same moisture and soil 
condition required for garden vegetables. 
The IDEAL conditions would be a rich, black, 
sandyloam, with considerable humus, no barnyard 
or commercial fertilizer except perhaps some phos¬ 
phoric acid if other crops indicate a deficiency in 
that element. Ideal moisture conditions would be 
such as found under thick leaf mulch beside an old 
log, moist bu-tbnot wet,- ginseng can not stand wet 
feet, the'grouhd must L>e well drained and yet gin¬ 
seng is hot particularly drouth resisting. 
Ginseng will attain at least twice the size under 
artificial shade, compared to that grown under 
natural shade where it has to compete with trbes or j 
vines for plant food and moisture, but roots grown 1 
under natural shade usually^ bring' 1 considerable 1 
more per pound? 
If artificial shade is used the" lath ol lumber r 
edgings must tun north and south so there will 
be an ever changing sunshine and shade, about one 
fourth sunshine, three fourths shade, the farther 
south the more shade. Good air drainage is desir¬ 
able, tight fefices dbjectidnatde. 
The more sunshine given the plants without it 
using enough ’ to kill them the larger the root''’ 
growth. 
If one can provide both artificial and natural 
shade a good plan Would be to grbw under artificial i 
shade two years or until the roots f are about a half f 
inch diameter, then transplant in the 1 timber, where e 
the ginseng would have'to compete with -the tree c 
and vine roots and given a stunted, starved, maturu 
ed appearance making it resemble-the wild.' 
If a large planting is to be done it is usually' 
better to do the work in the fall shortly before c 
freezing weather, when the weather is usually fav- - 
orable for many days or even weeks but if only a a 
few pounds are to be planted it is just as well to o 
leave the seeds in the care of some" one" exper-'' 
ienced until the frost has left the ground'in :the 
spring, the seed will then germinate • at once and c 
soon show a patch of ground one may well expectJl 
to-be-proud of in the future, - . 
