Archive image from page 517 of Cyclopedia of farm crops (1922). Cyclopedia of farm crops cyclopediaoffarm00bail Year: 1922 â 162 MEDICINAL PLANTS MEDICINAL PLANTS rate of four to the running foot give a proper de- gree of shade. These 2 x 4-inch pieces run across others nailed to the tops of eight-foot posts set two feet in the ground. The soil may be worked up without making beds. The planting may be in rows twelve inches apart, the plants being set six inches apart in the rows. Beds about four feet wide, made of ten-inch boards, and filled with soil are easier to keep clean of weeds but are
Archive image from page 517 of Cyclopedia of farm crops (1922). Cyclopedia of farm crops cyclopediaoffarm00bail Year: 1922 â 162 MEDICINAL PLANTS MEDICINAL PLANTS rate of four to the running foot give a proper de- gree of shade. These 2 x 4-inch pieces run across others nailed to the tops of eight-foot posts set two feet in the ground. The soil may be worked up without making beds. The planting may be in rows twelve inches apart, the plants being set six inches apart in the rows. Beds about four feet wide, made of ten-inch boards, and filled with soil are easier to keep clean of weeds but are more expensive in the beginning. Plants may then beset eight inches apart each way. A mulch of leaves or similar material three inches deep spread on after planting furnishes humus and keeps down weeds. Two hun- dred pounds each of acid phosphate and kainit in addition to the mulch will supply the necessary fertilizer. Walks about a foot or a foot and a half wide made between the beds make it possible to weed the beds without tramping out the plants. The best method of propagation consists in divid- ing the root-crowns of old plants. These may be divided each year, doubling the number at each division, or, if desirable, more and smaller plants may be made according to the number of buds pro- duced, since a bud and a part of the rhizome is necessary to pnxluce a new plant. The tops die in early fall and the roots may be divided and planted again while they are dormant. Small plants are formed on the fibrous roots of old plants and may be cared for separately or with the other part of the crop. Seeds are a practicable means of prop- agation, being stratified in sand till the following spring when they are planted in the seed-bed. Several years are required to grow the plants to marketable size. The plants from crown division should be dug while dormant about the third year after planting, the large roots sorted out, washed and dried for market, and the smaller ones planted agai
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