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ge, coe ee S er ae | atvation 
 M:Tvor does not consider the 
of his prineiples, that at Neddiwattum bei eing more corroborative of his vi 
but any one knowing the difference between a healthy and a sickly plant bia 
at once acknowledge that shade is not the condition for the active development 
of the Chinchona. There are, of course, other important "— connecte ted 
with the ultimate success of the aser in India which must be left to time 
and experiment to establish. We might mention the earliest soit of growth 
at which the alkaloids begin to show themselves, the efficacy of decoctions and 
infusions made from dry bark and leaves compared with their virtue when pre- 
pared with fresh specimens, and the possibility of dispensing in a large measure, 
if not gemi with the expensive manufactured article quinine, in the event of 
bark and leaf mad sufficient curative poopie to be exhibited in most 
ge fever disease One or more of these points, accompanied with 
of it, to a greater thickness than the original formation. This pecu 
n we learn, has been noticed by Mr. M*Ivor, after "iae the denuded 
parts with mo$s for a vtae or two ; imt whether the larger > volume ey pe -— 
thus produced will contai 
at present rests in obscuri 
Professor Balfour read a letter- received from John Allan Lol F.R.S., of 
the Trevandrum Observatory, Madras, in which he says :—* The finest palm : 
t 
rocks not easily reached ; but thore a = gach foresta of it on feme gory that we 
were kept from starving by the cabbage which 
is delicious. Raw, it is like the finest walnut; but we hát it cooked as $ a vege- 
table and as a curry, when we had nothing else to eat. Its effect in the fore- 
in groups, and evéh in the distance of the landscape, is very fine. It is 
brought down a few young plants to try to make it grow here 
a museum here, of which I am honorary — € nt, and I tried to get be 
a botanic pedit; but nothing has been done 
Dr. Richard Gambleton Daunt, rea St. ie Brazil, sent a specimen 
of the pod and seeds of Perovinha do Campo, said to be used in epilepsy and 
other diseases in South America. 
The following is an extract of a letter from Professor Lawson, Queen's Col- 
lege, Kingston, Canada :— Our botanic garden is making progress. we 
about seven acres of land, which is being gradually opened up into eer 
borders, and many of our students and graduates are active in bringing in roots 
the woods, while the citizens of Kingston send contributions from their 
gardens, and members at a distance seeds and such rare plants as come in their 
way. Weare under great obligation to Professor Asa Gray, who, in gp 
liberal manner, sent a large collection of roots from Cambridge. n 
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