504 QUININE-YIELDING BARK. Chap. XXVIII. 



a quick, uniform, and constant supply of bark ; and if the 

 lopping and pruning is judiciously conducted, the trees will 

 be benefited rather than injured by the annual removal of a 

 few branches.^ Chinchona-plants, like oaks and willows, 

 might also be cultivated as pollards. 



By cultivating the chinchona-plants on these principles' 

 forming plantations in cleared open ground, giving the plants 

 plenty of light and air, and obtaining annual harvests of quill- 

 bark from the shrubs, quinine-yielding chinchona-bark will 

 become an article of commerce within eight years from the 

 first introduction of the plants into India. After the first 

 harvest the supply will rapidly increase. Extensive Govern- 

 ment plantations of the different species at Neddiwuttum and 

 Dodabetta on the Neilgherries, will be in a position to supply 

 any number of chinchonse for private enterprise, and it is to 

 be hoped that the Government \vill establish other chinchona 

 nurseries on the Pulney hills, in Coorg, and eventually on the 

 Anamallays. 



As quinine-yielding bark is a more valuable product than 

 coffee, there is every reason to believe that, as soon as the 

 Government plantations are proved to be successful, many 

 planters will undertake the cultivation ; and I understand 

 from Mr. Mclvor that several persons have abeady expressed 

 a desire to give the chinchona) a trial, and that he expects to 

 be able to distribute plants by June 1862.^ Thus another. 



^ Cinnamon is one of the plants i seeds in nurseries, and planted six 

 which, like the cliinclionse, are cultivat- feet apart, when they are a foot or 

 ed solely for their bark. Mr. Thwaites, eighteen inches long. They will com- 

 the Director of the Botanical Gardens monly bear peeling in three or four 

 in Ceylon, has supplied me with a few years after being transi^lanted, if in 

 particulars respecting the cultivation • a favourable locality and properly 

 of cinnamon. The young shoots are \ attended to. The roots are earthed 

 peeled twice dming the year, at a par- ! up frequently, to keep the soil loose 

 ticular period of growth, when the i and free from weeds. In 1858, 

 bark comes off readily. This time is 750,744 lbs. of cinnamon were exported 

 known at once by the peelers, from from Ceylon, worth 37,5371. There 

 the appearance of the young slioots, are fortj'-nine cinnamon-gardens in 

 and the process of peeling is then a ' the island. 



very expeditious one, with practised '< ' Mr. Mc Ivor observes that the 

 hands. Young plants are raised from leaves of all the chinchona-plants at 



