KUBBEK 5 



I cannot suppose that you will succeed with the Cinchonas, 

 I hope that you will with Eucalyptus citriodora, a charming 

 plant, the odour of whose leaves far supersedes the ' Lemon 

 Verbena.' 



Cinchona was also introduced successfully into Jamaica, 

 but the full triumph of Cinchona in India appears in 1893, when 

 Sir George King, sending his latest Keport on its cultivation, 

 writes (September 24) : 



We have at last compassed the end which Govt, set before 

 itself in introducing Cinchona into India — an enterprise with 

 the initiation of which you had a great deal to do — viz., to 

 put Quinine within the reach of the poorest native. 



Now anybody in Bengal who possesses a farthing (the 

 equivalent of a pice) can buy for himself at any post-office 

 in Bengal a dose of 5 grains of perfectly unadulterated 

 Quinine ! 



It may interest you to see what these pice packets are 

 like, so I enclose a few. They can be had printed in any 

 Indian vernacular. The scheme was begun last January ; 

 and up to the end of August 368J pounds of Quinine had 

 been sold in this way. 



The Colombian barks were propagated in India ; cork oaks in 

 the Punjab ; seed of better kinds of tobacco was sent to Natal ; 

 Liberian coffee that was first grown at Kew in 1872, became a 

 flourishing crop alike in the East and the West Indies. To 

 Dominica it promised special success, as being immune to the 

 1 white fly ' which destroyed ordinary coffee. Chocolate also 

 was introduced into Ceylon. The Elaeis guineensis, source of 

 palm oil, was taken to Labuan ; experiments were made with 

 a new tanning material, the Atgarrobo of Chile, and various 

 fodder grasses were brought to new centres. The plant most 

 widely in demand from Kew in the late seventies was the 

 Eucalyptus, enemy of malaria ; but perhaps the most valuable 

 achievement of Kew was the transportation of the rubber plant 

 from the dangerous forests of the Amazon and the Orinoco to 

 our own healthier colonies. In 1873 Hooker persuaded the 

 Government to send an expedition to obtain the seeds of the 

 Hevea brasiliensis — the Para rubber tree. From the seeds 



