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long. “1 keep the weeds and the grass out. I don’t want them to take it. But I never water it.” He developed his patch with some seeds and some transplants. The biggest plant he’s got now was a transplant. ‘‘I run up on this plant when I was out fishing. I’d had a sack of beer and we’d finished the last beer, so I dug this up and put it in that damp sack [ where I’d had the beer. Carried it on home.”
“My mother once found a single ginseng root that weighed more than three quarters of a pound,” Baldwin said. “A wild ginseng root.” He doesn’t know what she got for it, or if she even sold it. They used to not sell it much, used it for themselves.
ATKINS regrets that he didn’t start a ginseng patch when he was a young man. “I could be a millionaire,” he said.
“If you’re going to try to plant ginseng from seed, you should plant the seeds the same fall you get them. Don’t let them dry out,” Baldwin warned. “If they don’t come up the first year, don’t worry, sometimes they don’t come up until the second year. It’s funny stuff. I’ve been running through these mountains looking for it all my live,” Burnam Atkins said.
T. R. Baldwin keeps an old newspaper article on the many uses of ginseng in his West End Shell Station at Sperryville. According to that article, the many benefits of ginseng range from “a performance enhancer,” making you calm but alert, to an antibiotic which “decreases blood pressure, helps ailments of the gall bladder, cures nervous frustration, stops vomiting, combats weakness after childbirth, brings an end to a hangover, and gives strength for tasks.” At least that’s what the article claims, Baldwin said.D
AUXILIARY MEET
Flint Hill Ladies Auxiliary will meet June 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the fire hall. All members please be present.□
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