Long ago I learned to 'labour and to wait.' By the way----here's my most difficult labour and my longest wait.

This is the precious gingseng bed." "How pretty!" exclaimed the Girl.
Covering acres of wood floor, among the big trees, stretched the lacy green carpet.

On slender, upright stalks waved three large leaves, each made up of five stemmed, ovate little leaves, round at the base, sharply pointed at the tip.

A cluster of from ten to twenty small green berries, that would turn red later, arose above.

The Harvester lifted a plant to show the Girl that the Chinese name, Jin-chen, meaning man-like, originated because the divided root resembled legs.