344 TRANSPLANTATION OF THE PERUVIAN BARK 



sent to East India, — as, in AprD, 1851, six plants; December, 1851, 

 three plants; July, 1852, four plants. Mr. Willink, of Amsterdam, 

 has also sent once or twice to Java, and thereby has shown his real 



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Interest in the good cause. 



In the Botanical Garden at Paris some plants of the Cinchona Call- 

 saya had grown up from seeds, sent by Mr. Weddell from South Ame- 

 rica ; part of these were sent to Algiers, the rest were kept at Pans. 

 In 1851 I saw two plants in one of the greenhouses, which, I was as- 

 sured, were the only ones left. These, as I guess, were from 2-21- feet 

 high, and were in a healthy state. It would have been indiscreet to 

 have asked for one of those two plants ; I learned however that there 

 was one at Messrs. Thibaut and Keteliere's, which seemed to me the 

 same. This plant was conceded to me, and was sent from Pans to 

 Leyden on the 21st of July, 1851. It grew luxuriantly here, and in a 

 few weeks attained a length of 7 5 inches ; it was sent by the Minister s 

 orders, in an apparatus expressly made for it, to Java, on the 1st ot 

 December, 1851. 



A letter from Batavia, 21st April, 1852, informed me that what I 

 had sent had succeeded ; for which, it appeared, that the minute care 

 and the particular form of the apparatus were to be thanked. A lew 

 slips were immediately taken from this little tree ; and the preser^tion 

 of the plant was ensured, if unfortunately the chief stem should wither, 

 for which, at first, there was some fear. The slips grew, and the tree 

 also was preserved, to which its transplantation to Tjipannas certamly 

 contributed. 



The last advices from East India, concerning this plant, sent from 



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the Botanical Garden, stated that very favourable expectations were 

 formed of it, and that it had already attained a height^ of 5i feet. 

 Will the cultivation at Java succeed? Will the soil, the air, the light, 

 the degree of warmth, of dampness, and other atmospheric relations, 

 kstly, will the particular situation, suit the culture ? Will the plant 

 there find, in a word, aU that it finds in its native soil that is necessary 

 for its development in its normal state, and there everything to form 

 all that which makes it the most valuable of all medicinal substances 

 that the earth anywhere affords ? 



Of no new agricultural undertaking is the result to be considered 

 as certain. The whole system of agriculture consists but in the ex- 

 change or transplantation of plants from one place to another. Tins 



