2 ECONOMIC BOTANY AND THE NEW FLOKAS 



to the Bengal Government was placed at 40,000. The first 

 reference is dated April 22, 1861 : 



I have not written since you left ; in fact I have been so 

 anxious about the Cinchonas you so gallantly took out that 

 I was indifferent to everything else in your way out till I 

 should hear the result. ' Well done thou good and faithful 

 servt.' Thwaites confirms your report of their well-being, 

 and I do hope that McNicholl at Ceylon will rear them 

 up in the wa;/ they should go. 



A year later . 



I am truly glad to hear of the Cinchona success and 

 sincerely hope my vaticination against Darjiling will fail 

 we know nothing at all by theory. 



Indeed there was some trouble over the rival sites recom- 

 mended for the plantations ; he recommends the avoidance 

 of partizanship, patient trial of each, for : 



Every day tells me that theory and practice have nothing 

 to do with one another, and that in gardening operations 

 they are wholly opposed. 



And again, summing up Anderson's and his opponent's 

 views : 



I think you both presume inordinately on your several 

 experiences, yours in Java, his in America, and that if 

 Cinchona is to succeed it will be in spite of you both. 



More plants were asked for in January 1863, but ' it is impos- 

 sible to send them in winter. They would all be killed in the 

 Channel, and must wait till the sharp frosts are over.' By 

 April 1, 1863, ' The Cinchona growing at Calcutta is a wonder 

 have you a photograph of it ? ' 



So it continues to * go ahead fast and well. I do not believe 

 in an atom of difference between so-called micranfha, niiida, 

 and peruviana.' 



Of a German, however, in charge of a West Indian station, 

 though able to write * a splendid paper,' he complains : 



