Panax Newsletter
Number 17
Michael Hunter
Editor

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Panax Newsletter Number 17
                                   9/5/00

Sponsored by
Glacial Ginseng Co.
2750 Parnall Road
Jackson Michigan  49201
517-787-6044
Toll Free: 1-888-496-8767

"Free"
"VISUAL SITE" EVALUATIONS

WITH A CAMERA

A  Free Service being offered by Glacial Ginseng Company is a visual site evaluation from pictures taken with a camera.   A question that I am being asked is "do I have a good site for growing ginseng?" one picture is worth a thousand words, and so what I am proposing to do is to have you go to your woods and starting in the southwest corner, walk towards the northeast corner, at about 2:00 in the afternoon. 

Take pictures to your left and to your right as you walk.  The number of pictures is kind of up to you and depends on how big a piece of land you are working with, shoot up the rest of the film that is in your camera, a half a dozen good pictures on a ten acre woods should give me an idea of what your site is like.  Adjust the number of pictures by the size of your woods.   Have someone stand about 20 yards away and try to get the bottom of their feet just nicely in the picture.  Take some pictures of some of the places that you think ginseng might do well in and I will evaluate those. 

  After evaluation of your pictures and judging from the shade, etc. I will promptly mail you a report that will have my suggestions as to the light requirements and other improvements that you might do to your site, that would improve your chances for successfully growing ginseng, (of course, I will also tell you if your site is not suitable for ginseng growing).
Please Enclose A Stamped Self Address Envelope and Send to:
Site Evaluation
GLACIAL GINSENG CO.
2750 Parnall Road 
Jackson, MI 49201 U.S.A.

"Glacial Gold" Ginseng Seed is our trade-mark.

If you successfully blend 6 or more strains of a plant together , you come up with a new variety of plant and you have the right to name it.  This is what we have done with Our Ginseng Seeds.  Therefore We have named our Variety of Ginseng Seeds "Glacial Gold" Ginseng Seeds.  "Glacial Gold" is our trade-mark, it'd the brand of our Company, and it's a serious way to get these plants to their original State.  So little cross-breeding  is being done.  The wild plants out here are so scarce and few and far between they're breeding amongst themselves.  Any unisexual plant or animal that inter-breeds with itself, creates a genetic clone.   Each succeeding generation is shortening the life span of the ginseng plant.  Plants that should be living 65 or 70 years are lucky if they can get to live to be 10 years old.

For More About This "Click Below"

Some More Real Good Information About Growing Ginseng,

Been thinking about what Dad told me years ago
about hunting wild ginseng and sweet spots. You walk in on one of them, you can just feel it there, but the deer trails have a tendency to go from one of these sweet spots to another if you follow them along. Of course, hunting for wild ginseng along deer trails is an old timers trick, but when the deer get to these sweets spots, they’re looking for the ginseng berries to eat them. Well, they eat the berries, but the seeds pass right through the deer, consequently the Deer are doing some real nice work for us. 
Michael Hunter

"Fall Planting Specials"

(Panax Quinquefolium) American Ginseng

The "Ginseng Growers Guide" by Michael Hunter
Will Be Included "Free" With All Orders Of "Glacial Gold" Ginseng Seeds.

We Need Commercial Growers of "Glacial Gold" Ginseng Seeds
Special Discounts on 50 Pounds or More.  Contracts!!

"September Specials"

1 # Stratified "Glacial Gold" Ginseng Seed Kit
(Appo. 7,000 Seeds)
Reg. $99.95 Now Thru Sept. 30th $93.95 Plus S&H (US)
Included With Your Order
The "Ginseng Growers Guide" by Michael Hunter and Soil Testing Kit, Performs 10 Tests for Proper PH (Proper PH for Ginseng is 5.5 to 6.5), and 4 Survey Flags.  (These Metal Survey Flags Draw Static Electricity During Storms and this releases the Nitrogen Trapped in The Decomposing Forest Floor.)  Should be Planted  in a Area of about 5,500 square feet or less.

"Commercial September Special"

5 # Stratified "Glacial Gold" Ginseng Seed Kit
(Appo. 35,000 Seeds)
Reg. $349.95 Now Thru Sept. 30th $299.95 Plus S&H (US)
Included With Your Order
The "Ginseng Growers Guide" by Michael Hunter and Soil Testing Kit, Performs 10 Tests for Proper PH (Proper PH for Ginseng is 5.5 to 6.5), and 10 Survey Flags.  (These Metal Survey Flags Draw Static Electricity During Storms and this releases the Nitrogen Trapped in The Decomposing Forest Floor.)  Should be Planted in a Area of about 22,000 square feet or less.

10 # Stratified "Glacial Gold" Ginseng Seed Kit
(Appo. 70,000 Seeds)
Reg. $649.95 Now Thru Sept. 30th $599.95 Plus S&H (US)
Included With Your Order
The "Ginseng Growers Guide" by Michael Hunter and A Soil Testing Kit, Performs 10 Tests for Proper PH (Proper PH for Ginseng is 5.5 to 6.5), and 20 Survey Flags.  (These Metal Survey Flags Draw Static Electricity During Storms and this releases the Nitrogen Trapped in The Decomposing Forest Floor.)  Should be Planted in an Area of about 44,000 square feet or Less.