Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants, credited to Arthur Robert Harding, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants by Arthur Robert Harding. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. When the price of Ginseng advanced some years ago hundreds engaged in the business who knew little or nothing of farming, plant raising and horticulture. That they largely failed is not to be wondered at. Later many began in a small way and succeeded. Many of these were farmers and gardeners. Others were men who had hunted, trapped and gathered "seng" from boyhood. They therefore knew something of the peculiarities of Ginseng. It is from the experience of these men that this work is largely made up — writings of those who are in the business. Many other plants are destined to soon become valuable. A work gotten out by the government — American root drugs — contains a great deal of value in regard habits, range, description, common names, price, uses, etc., etc., so that some of the information contained in this book is taken therefrom. - Summary by A.R. Harding

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants
• Author credits: Arthur Robert Harding
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 8:39:23

Catalogue topics

• ginseng
• golden seal
• lady's slipper
• cohosh
• mayapple
• pokeweed
• medicinal plant
• snakeroot

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 00 - Introduction — 3:13
2. 01 - I. Plants as a Source of Revenue — 11:02
3. 02 - II. List of Plants Having Medicinal Value — 10:25
4. 03 - III. Cultivation of Wild Plants — 9:04
5. 04 - IV. The Story of Ginseng — 11:46
6. 05 - V. Ginseng Habits — 12:29
7. 06 - VI. Cultivation — 25:41
8. 07 - VII. Shading and Blight — 15:38
9. 08 - VIII. Diseases of Ginseng — 29:23
10. 09 - IX. Marketing and Prices — 25:25
11. 10 - X. Letters from Growers — 29:20
12. 11 - XI. General Information — 12:06
13. 12 - XII. Medicinal Qualities — 15:11
14. 13 - XIII. Ginseng in China — 28:40
15. 14 - XIV. Ginseng — Government Description, Etc. — 5:45
16. 15 - XV. Michigan Mint Farm — 6:55
17. 16 - XVI. Miscellaneous Information — 6:50
18. 17 - XVII. Golden Seal Cultivation — 13:47
19. 18 - XVIII. Golden Seal History, Etc. — 30:56
20. 19 - XIX. Growers' Letters — 23:49
21. 20 - XX. Golden Seal — Government Description, Etc. — 7:25
22. 21 - XXI. Cohosh — Black and Blue — 9:19
23. 22 - XXII. Snakeroot — Canada and Virginia — 8:56
24. 23 - XXIII. Pokeweed — 4:09

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