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of assuring himself of the success of the intended transplanting. Tha 

 Quinquina plants raised in the Gardens progressed in their development 

 so much, that even in 1854 some were sent to Java. This really took 

 place, and they were sent from Leyden, Utrecht, and Amsterdam. 



1. From Leyden, plants of Cinchona Calisaya. 



2. From Utrecht, plants of the Cinchona ovaia. 



3. From Amsterdam, plants of Cinchona Calisaya and Cinchona pu- 

 hescens. 



Of No. 1 favourable reports have been received ; of No* 2 such are 

 still expected. 



Could there possibly be a doubt as to the correctness of the naming 

 of the sorts of those received from Mr. Hasskarl under the name of 

 '^Cinchona Calisaya, Wedd."? I think not. The Government had 

 sent a thoroughly competent person, and one who, by a long experience 

 m the investigation of nature, had become a clever botanist, and whose 

 writings testify to his strict exactness and scrupulous nicety in the 

 smallest particulars ; his love of truth is above all praise ; his special 

 knowledge of the subject must be a guarantee against all mistake. 

 With such security for my conviction, I thought to be able, a priori^ 

 to foresee, that from the seeds which the Government has been pleased 

 to entrust to the Botanical Gardens, if they germinated, no other plants 

 than the Calisaya Quinine-tree would appear, under which name I re- 

 ceived them. 



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The result has not disappointed the expectation. The Quinquinas 

 here developed are Calisaya plants. A strict inquiry has proved this 

 to me as certainly as science only can. 



Under date of the 21st of October, 1854, the Govern or- General in- 

 formed the Colonial Minister that a great part of the Quinquina plants 

 had attained such a growth that they could be planted out in a regular 

 garden. Later advices concerning the planting out do not inform us 

 of the preservation of the greatest number of the plants which came 

 up from seeds at the Tjibodas, but this was not to be expected ; this 

 has nowhere, or never been the case with transplantation. Experience 

 yet teaches us that plants produced from seeds do not always grow up 

 and remain sound. 



The result of the culture of the Quinquina, under the direction and 

 care of Mr. Teysmann, as well those obtained from seeds of Mr. Hass- 

 karl, as those sent on former occasions from Leyden and Amsterdam, 

 is as follows : 



