EUCALYPTUS TREES, 601 
plants on Government ground of Cinchona succirubra 
(yielding the red bark) numbered then 1,233,715; 
those of C. officinalis, 440,000 ; other species existed 
in smaller number. Be it remembered that this new 
culture was commenced in British India only a few 
years ago. But there large sums are specially grant- 
ed for this new branch of industry, which sums, if we 
consider the cheapness of Hindu labor, would need 
here, for similar purposes, to be proportionately en- 
enlarged to secure equal successes. For the thousands 
of Cinchona-plants, kept in my brush shades, as yet 
the reservation of the needful mild forest plots, and 
the special fund for the maintenance and the multi- 
plication of such plants in the woods, has to be obtain- 
ed. The yield of seeds by Cinchonas is abundant after 
a few years, and by these means the subsequent in- 
crease of the plantation is easy, and not involving 
large expenditure. To private settlers in our own 
forest - gullies and in the other Australian colonies 
Cinchonas have been furnished ; in open gardens near 
Sydney a few scattered plants have flowered this year, 
they being in that genial climatic spot not imperilled 
by frost. 
If the Tea-plant, both of China and Assam, was first 
of all largely raised in Australia by myself; ifI placed 
it before the public in its growing state ; if I drew, re- 
peatedly, attention in public documents to the im- 
portance of its culture; if I prepared the first samples 
of Australian Tea in our Botanic Garden for great in- 
dustrial exhibitions here and abroad ; and if, more- 
over, Lannually distributed Tea-plants, and even seed, 
to an extent not altogether inconsiderable, then I do 
think that I may rest satisfied of having fairly carried 
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