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goon; and until a Sanatarium is formed on those hills, or 

 some European settlers have established themselves there, it 

 will be useless to attempt the introduction of the chinehona- 

 plauts. Before many years, however, it is to be hoped that 

 plantations on the Yoonzaleen hills will supply quinme- 

 jdelding bark to the inhabitants of the plains of Pegu. 



In a former chapter I stated that I gave directions for the 

 transmission of a supply of seeds both of the " grey " and the 

 " red-bark " species to two of our West Indian islands — 

 Trinidad and Jamaica. In Trinidad they did not germinate, 

 but in Jamaica, under the watchful care of Mr. N. Wilson, 

 the Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens in that colony, 

 they came up plentifully. By the spring of 1861 Mr. Wilson 

 had a good stock of all the species in the gardens on the 

 sweltering plains, where the " gi-ey-bark " species naturally 

 began to die off, but the C. succiruhra plants were domg weU, 

 and sixty of them were quite strong enough to be planted 

 out early in June. On the 4th of June, 1861, Mr. Wilson 

 removed 120 plants, 60 of C. micrantha and 60 of C. nitida, 

 to the foot of Catherine's Peak, which is 4000 feet above the 

 sea. Here he was obliged to leave them, as the Jamaica 

 Government had furnished him with no efficient assistant. 

 In November he reported that the plants of G. succiruhra 

 were doing well, and by the latest accounts, dated March 

 24th, 1862, all the plants were thriving ; but the chinchona 

 experiment is not hkely to succeed in Jamaica, owing to the 

 listless apathy of the legislators of this colony. They have 

 taken no steps to supply Mr. Wilson with assistant-gardeners, 

 have allotted no land in suitable localities as sites for chin- 

 chona-plantations, and have thus neglected to secure the 

 successful introduction of a product which would have en- 

 riched the island, when the means of doing so were i:)laced 

 gratuitously at their disposal by the Secretary of State for 

 India. 



