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assuming a leathery textvre, while the lower leaves became red and 
. fell-off; thus exhibiting the usual signs of a definite season of rest. 
ie ii (Signed). Wm: G. M‘Ivor. 
stí July, 1862.” 
“On January 1, 1863, the number of Chinchona plants permanently 
planted out on the Neilgherry hills, was 35,000, all of which were 
making satisfactory progress. The largest plant was 7 feet high, with 
branches from 3 to 5 feet in length, and the stem, at half a foot above 
the ground, 52 inches. The total number of Chinchona plants on the 
Neilgherry hills, at the same date, was as follows :— 
SOLE OLE CAFE Pee itus 45,352 
C Calisaya. . . . . eee A eae p peg 1,448 
C. officinalis (var. Condaminea) . . . . . . . 87? 
i » (var. Bonplandiana) . . . . . . 46,751 
» (var. crispa) SPT ee uti e 
C. lancifolia (à 8 te wets oer 1 
IMS - Yo inii +: mon mb ed chal CHA Wis 8,591 
EN Dos: . 1 uo ode oer test 2 8,304 
EU AE... tes sk ux 2,729 
2. MEME wage Mo c eor Meus 2,569 
Samad 2! E art Spuos De HW. NOS 425 
ZA | ar. tac 117,706 
Th September, 1862, Sir William Denison, the Governor of Madras, 
Visited the Chinchona plantations, and recorded a minute, of which 
the following is an extract :— 
. " T visited Neddiwuttum a few days ago, and found the state of the 
Plantation to be as follows. At the top of the hill, a height of about 
5000 feet above the sea, a number of plants had been in the ground 
for upwards of a year. ‘They had been exposed to the cold of the 
winter, the drought of the spring, the wet of the monsoon, yet nothing 
uid look more healthy and flourishing than the whole of them. 
Further down the hill, a piece of ground about 68 acres in extent had 
" cleared and prepared for plants; this site occupied two sides of 
a valley, and was sheltered by belts of trees or the ridges separating 
it from the adjacent valleys. About 18 acres of this were planted, and 
the plants looked healthy and flourishing. In an adjacent valley, at à - 
lower level, about 180 acres had been felled and partially burnt, and 
" this again was the propagating-house and the nursery for 
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