Archive image from page 403 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 Dry ginseng roots. One-third natural size. for the ills of those organs; and, as the roots of ginseng: oftt>n resemble the form of a man, they are therefore specific for the ills of man. When the plant is old enough to produce fruit it is rather conspicuous and is easily recognized, but until three or four years old it is not usually very promi- nent. The seedlings J-$ at first
Archive image from page 403 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 Dry ginseng roots. One-third natural size. for the ills of those organs; and, as the roots of ginseng: oftt>n resemble the form of a man, they are therefore specific for the ills of man. When the plant is old enough to produce fruit it is rather conspicuous and is easily recognized, but until three or four years old it is not usually very promi- nent. The seedlings J-$ at first somewhat \ r~/3 . resemble newly sprouted beans, in that they send up two cotyledons, and from between them a stem with two minute leaves. These enlarge until the plant has at- tained its first sea- son's growth (about two inches). The work of the plant during the first year is to develop the bud at the crown of the root, which is to produce the next season's stem and leaves. In autumn the stem dies and breaks off, leaving a scar, at the side of which is the solitary bud. In the spring of the second year this bud produces a straight, erect stem, at the top of which the one to three branch- like stalks of the compound leaves appear. Three to eight leaflets are developed, which usually rise not more than four inches from the ground. The third year eight to fifteen leaflets may be put forth, and the plant may attain a height of eight inches. In succeeding years the plant may produce three, sometimes four or even five leaf-stalks three or four inches long, each bearing five thin leaflets palmately arranged, two of them an inch or two long, the remainder three or four inches, egg-shaped in outline, with the broad end away from the stem, abruptly pointed and saw-toothed. At a point where the meet, the main axis is continued into an erect flower-stalk, two to five inches long, bearing in early July, or in late June, a number of inconspicuous, yellowish green flowers. Thes
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