Introduction

Plants as a Source of Revenue

List of Plants Having Medicinal Value

Cultivation of Wild Plants

The Story of Ginseng

Ginseng Habits

• Different Kinds of Ginseng

Cultivation

Shading and Blight

• Shading

Diseases of Ginseng

• Susceptibility of Ginseng to Disease

• The Most Common and Destructive Disease of Ginseng

• Cause of the Disease

• Summer History of the Disease

• Preventive

• Symptoms of Disease and Nature of the Injury

• Damping-Off Disease

• The Wilt Disease

• Bordeaux Mixture

• Process - Lime for Bordeaux Mixture

Marketing and Prices

• Preparing the Roots for Market

• Importance of Taste and Flavor

Letters from Growers

• Best Time to Sow Seed

General Information

• General Remarks

• Treatment of Soils

• Treatment of Roots

Medicinal Qualities

Ginseng in China

• The Ginseng Trade

• Chinese Superstitions

• The Cultivated Plant

Ginseng—Government Description, Etc.

Michigan Mint Farm

• Some Details of the Business

• Distiller as Well as Grower

• Raises Shorthorns on Mint Hay

• Setting New Mint Fields

• Harvesting the Mint

Miscellaneous Information

Golden Seal Cultivation

• Caring for the Seed

• Harvesting, Drying and Marketing

Golden Seal History, Etc

• History

• Habitat and Range

• Common Names

• Description of the Plant

• Description of the Rhizome, or Rootstock

• Collection and Preparation of the Root

• Diminution of Supply

• Cultivation

• Necessary Soil Conditions

• Artificial Shade

• Attention Required

• Methods of Propagation

• Experiments with Seeds

• Experiments with Divided Rhizomes

• Yield of Roots

• Time Necessary To Mature Crop

• Market Conditions

Growers' Letters

Golden Seal—Government Description

Other Descriptions of Medicinal Plants

• Black Cohosh. Cimicifuga racemosa (L.) Nutt.

• Blue Cohosh. Caulophyllum thalictroides (L.) Michx.

• Canada Snakeroot. Asarum canadense L.

• Virginia Snakeroot. Aristolochia serpentaria L.

• Pokeweed. Phytolacca Decandra L.

• May-Apple. Podophyllum Peltatum L.

• Seneca Snakeroot. Polygala Senega L.

• Lady's-Slipper. Cypripedium hirsutum Mill.

• Bethroot. Trillium erectum L.

• Culver's Root. Veronicastrum virginicum L.

• Stone-Root. Collinsonia canadensis L.

• Crawley-Root. Corallorhiza odontorhiza (Wild) Nutt.

• Male Fern.

• Goldthread. Coptis trifolia (L.) Salisb.

• Twinleaf. Jeffersonia diphylla (L.) Pers.

• Canada Moonseed. Menispermum canadense L.

• Wild Turnip. Arum triphyllum L.

• Black Indian Hemp. Apocynum cannabinum L.

• Helonias. Chamaelirium luteum (L.) A. Gray.

• Wild Yam. Dioscorea villosa L.

• Skunk-Cabbage. Symplocarpus foetidum L.

• American Hellebore. Veratrum viride Ait.

• Water-Eryngo. Eryngium yuccifolium Michx.

• Yellow Jasmine or Jessamine. Gelsemium sempervirens (L.) Ait. F.

• Sweet-Flag. Acorus calamus L.

• Blue Flag. Iris versicolor L.

• Crane's-Bill. Geranium maculatum L.

• Dandelion. Taraxacum officinale Weber. (A).

• Soapwort. Saponaria officinalis

• Burdock. Arctium lappa L.

• Yellow Dock. Rumex crispus L.

• Stillingia. Stillingia sylvatica L.

• American Colombo. Frasera carolinensis Walt.

• Couch-Grass. Agropyron repens (L.) Beauv.

• Echinacea. Echinacea angustifolia (DC).

• Aletris. Aletris farinosa L.

• Wild Indigo. Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R. Br.

• Pleurisy-Root. Asclepias tuberosa L.

• Bloodroot. Sanguinaria canadensis L.

• Pinkroot. Spigelia marilandica L.

• Indian-Physic. Gillenia trifoliata (L.) Britton.

• Wild Sarsaparilla. Aralia nudicaulis L.

• American Angelica. Angelica atropurpurea L.

• Comfrey. Symphytum officinale

• Elecampane. Inula helenium L.

• Queen-of-the-Meadow. Eupatorium purpureum.

• Hydrangea. Hydrangea arborescens L.

• Oregon Grape. Berberis aquifolium Purs.