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China plantation, and had never personally selected either the 

 plants or the seed, but had made arrangements for being 

 supplied with the specimens he brought by means of the 

 native bark-collectors [Cascarilleros). As though still farther 

 to enhance the public discontent with Hasskarl, and the 

 failure of his expensive mission, fate unhappily willed that 

 his wife, who was said to be bringing with her his papers 

 and memoranda of his stay in Peru, was lost, together with 

 the vessel which, after several years' separation from her 

 husband, was about restoring her to his arms, in consequence 

 of which many questions relating to the cultivation of the 

 China plant in northern and southern Peru remained un- 

 answered ! Hasskarl ere long returned to Europe ''for his 

 health," and the superintendence of the China cultivation 

 was in June, 1858, committed to Dr. Junghuhn, in whose 

 careful charge it now is, and has taken a start which leaves 

 no room to doubt its ultimate and permanent success. 



In October, 1856, there were in Tjipodas 105 China trees 

 of 2 feet 6 inches high (41 of C. Calisaya^ 64 of C. Condanimea). 

 On 31st October, 1857, there were only 95 about 4 feet llj 

 inches in heiglit, all in flourishing condition, while 10 had 

 died. The cause of this lamentable phenomenon could not 

 long escape the piercing glance of Junghuhn. The first 

 tender shoots had been planted in a Tufa soil, the fertile 

 covering of which barely exceeded 6 to 9 inches in thickness, 

 and were smTOunded by roots and stumps of immense forest 

 trees that had been cut down, which of course prevented 



