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number of i)lants to Java, and the transmission of others to 

 Calcutta, with a view to the formation of a plantation in 

 the Bengal hills, and of sixteen to Mr. Maltby for the llajah 

 of Travancore. 



It is exceedingly satisfactory to compare these results with 

 those of the Dutch cultivators in Java. After six years they 

 only had (exclusive of the G. Pahudia^ia, which is quite 

 worthless) 8454 chinchona-plants of valuable species f 

 whereas in rather less than one year Mr. Mclvor has reared 

 9732, without counting several hundreds which he has trans- 

 mitted to Java, Calcutta, and Travancore. The Dutch have 

 only introduced two good species, while we have obtained 

 nine, exclusive of the four plants of C. lancifolia presented by 

 the Dutch authorities. Thus, the average increase of valuable 

 species of cAmcAona-plants in Java between 1854 and 1860 

 being at .the rate of 1409 a year, the results attained in 

 India have been nearly seven times as great as those of the 

 Dutch cultivators. These facts are not mentioned in any 

 spirit of undue exultation, but in order to show that it is 

 not advisable slavishly to follow the methods of cultivation 

 adopted by the Dutch, as two gentlemen, in official positions, 

 who have recently visited the plantations in Java, appear to 

 imagine. On the contrary, a system of cultivation diame- 

 trically opposed to that of the Dutch has enabled Mr. IMcIvor 

 to achieve his present success ; and the sites for plantations 

 have been selected and prepared, not with any reference 

 to the erroneous and comparatively unsuccessfid systems 



* The chincliona-plaiitations were commenced iu Java iu December 1854. 

 On the 31st of December, 1860, they had of 



C. Callsaya plants : 5510 in the germinating sheds. 

 180G planted out. 

 1080 living cuttings. 

 C. lancifolia plants : 38 in the nursery sheds. 

 42 planted out. 

 28 living cuttings. 



Total .. .. 8454 

 Their other species is worthless.— Mr. Frasers linyort, p. 2. 



