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concept-2787	Morbeck, Gabriel	The Root of Empire: Botany, British Imperialism, & Early American Encounters with Ginseng, 1738-1784	2023	25	.pdf	application/pdf	9351	432	59	Your proprietor was so kind to send Mee a Considerable [parcel] & I have Trusted a [particular] Friend with it to Carry to China, to see how they approve of it and to find what price it bears — but my friend is under promise not to Discover that it is American for if they know that, they are so fancifull it may not be as good as their own — 11 It would be a few decades before botanists developed a distinction between the two species of panax, but Collinson was already cognizant of the risks that flooding Chinese markets with American ginseng posed. Eighteenth-century botanists frequently assumed that every plant could be mass cultivated under the right conditions, and ginseng was no exception.53 Gathering had already been fueling significant export of American ginseng to China, but beginning in the 1740s, the botanists of the Royal Society began to shift their attention towards attempts to cultivate ginseng in their English gardens.	cache/concept-2787.pdf	txt/concept-2787.txt