359 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [NOVEMBER 
(1868) by planting out forty acres with five species of cinchona. 
Now also a first beginning was about to be made to realize the 
conception of Sir Basil Keith of nearly a hundred years before | 
to have a “European garden” in a temperate climate. A 
small plantation was made in 1869 of Assam tea, and after- 
wards of a hybrid between the Assam and China. Eucalyptus 
globulus from Australia, Cupressus macrocarpa and Pinus insignis 
from California, and Pinus excelsa from the Himalayas are 
among the forest trees planted out and flourishing in later 
years. In 1869, 40,000 plants of cinchona were offered for sale 
at rates of £5 to 47 per 1000. 
At Castleton, up to 1869, there had been no general impor 
tation of plants, because of doubts about maintaining the garden 
on account of its distance from Kingston. In the Blue Book 
for 1871 Sir J. P. Grant says: 
The famous Jamaica botanic garden of ancient times, which was not 
only of the highest intrinsic value, but also was admirably situated, was sold, 
I believe, for a trifle, and was broken up a long time ago, in some spasmodic 
fit of false economy. More lately a botanic garden was established at Bath. 
The site was unfortunately selected, being a long day’s journey from the 
capital. But the purchase, in 1859, of Castleton, and its formation in 1863 into 
a new botanic garden in substitution for the garden at Bath, which was finally 
abandoned in 1866, is said to have been determined upon because of serious 
damage caused and threatened by a water course. The selection of Castleton 
as the site of the new garden was also unfortunate, as it is a distance of 
nineteen miles from Kingston; and it is important to interest the public as 
much as possible in such an institution as a botanic garden. But the 
selection having been made, and a large number of plants having been 
established there, whilst the position, except in respect of its distance from 
the capital, is unexceptionable, it would have been unwise once more to have 
thrown away all that our predecessors had done for us by removal to a fourth 
position. It was determined therefore to treat the Castleton garden as * 
fixture; and as it is not too far from Kingston for a holiday excursion, to g° 
to some little expense in its gradual embellishment, in the hope of attracting 
_ visitors to what I believe will certainly become one of the most interesting 
spots in the West Indies. 
As soon as this determination had been arrived at aie 
Dr. (now Sir) J. D. Hooker sent out from Kew great numbers 
