Information Sheet

 

 

R         McDowell, Douglas E.

1062                The Ginseng Garden, 1909.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

This is the issue for August 1909 of The Ginseng Garden, edited by Charles E. McDowell at Joplin in Jasper County, Missouri.  This quarterly publication promoted the cultivation and marketing of ginseng, a medicinal root.

 

Charles E. McDowell was the editor of The Ginseng Garden and proprietor of the McDow­ell Ginseng Garden, which supplied plants and nursery root-stock to prospective ginseng growers.  Arguing that “There are over 400,000,000 Chinamen, all wanting ginseng,” McDowell promoted “pure American ginseng” as a lucrative cash crop.  Included in this small journal are tips on how to obtain roots and seeds, tips on cultivation, and where to sell the harvest.  There is a table out­lining the “Cost and Profits of an Acre of Ginseng.”  McDowell also recommended the growing of “Castle Rock” strawberries and Canada snake root, and opined that the Payne-Aldrich tariff would have a beneficial effect upon Joplin’s zinc-mining industry.

 

 

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