. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 685. Foxglove (.Diaitalis purpurea). leaves around the bases of the flowering stalks are then picked and dried in the shade to preserve their green color. The yield of leaves from an acre of good soil well fertilized and cared for will be about five hundred or six hundred pounds. The relation of fertilizers to yield and content of active principle is an open question here as with other as the soil can be worked, planting. Frequent cultivation is desirable during the growing season of both first and second years until the plant
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 685. Foxglove (.Diaitalis purpurea). leaves around the bases of the flowering stalks are then picked and dried in the shade to preserve their green color. The yield of leaves from an acre of good soil well fertilized and cared for will be about five hundred or six hundred pounds. The relation of fertilizers to yield and content of active principle is an open question here as with other as the soil can be worked, planting. Frequent cultivation is desirable during the growing season of both first and second years until the plant flowers in June of the second year. The Fig. 686. Golden sen f,Hydrastis Canadensis). Golden seal ( Canadensis, Linn.). Ranun- culaccm. (G. F. Klugh.) Fig. 686. A low, perennial-rooted herb with a stout, strongly-rooted rhizome of a golden yellow color when broken, sending up a slender stem about a foot high, which bears one or two alternate, five- to seven-lobed leaves, the leaves with a short petiole, the upper sessile, and a large basal leaf of similar general outline ; the single, whitish, incon- spicuous flower is borne terminally above the upper leaf on a short peduncle ; the fruit is somewhat pulpy when ripe and in general appearance is sug- gestive of a small red raspberry. This plant is a native of the rich woods of the Appalachian region, Ohio valley and northward to southern Wisconsin. It has long been used in medicine and in recent years to an increasing degree. As a result it has become relatively rare in commercial quantities and its cultivation has been made a subject of in- vestigation by the United States Department of Agriculture. The culture of golden seal is now widely practiced in small gardens. The soil should be loose and loamy, well supplied with humus and shaded to keep it moist and cool. Plastering laths nailed to 2 x 4-inch pieces at the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enha
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