Abstract:To study the relative absorption of NH4-N and NO3-N by ginseng, pot experiment with 15N as a tracer was carried out. The result showed that the Ndfa% (the percentage of N derived from NH4) in 2 and 3 years old ginseng was only 67.4% and 61.2% of Ndfn% (the percentage of N derived from NO3) meanwhile the utilization rate of NH4-N was 53.4% and 52.0% of that pof NO3-N. Thus the NO3-N was absorbed more favourably than NH4-N. However,it was also shown that 2 and 8 years old ginseng obsorbed the Ndfn% of NO3-N as many as 142.1% and 167.7% of the percent of N derived from bean-cake powder respectively, and the utilization rate was 120% and 119% of that of the latter source. Therefore the inorganic nitrogen can easily be absorbed by ginseng. From the fact of relative absorption of NO3-Nand NH4-N,it was evident that the nutritional chraacteristic of ginseng was similar toordinary farming crops.