JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vo. Vv. January, 1904. No. 49 
THE TROPICAL STATION AT CINCHONA, JAMAICA. 
A great need in the formation of the collection of tropical and 
subtropical plants at the Garden up to the present time has been 
a suitable place in the American tropics where seeds could be 
germinated and cuttings and seedlings grown under natural con- 
ditions for periods up to two or three years, before their transpor- 
tation to the conservatories at Bronx Park. Plants can be germi- 
nated and grown under glass, but in many instances it is desirable 
and the care of such nurseries is far less expensive than that of 
propagating houses. Larger plants collected in the tropical 
forests are also transported to the temperate zone only with diffi- 
culty and with eae unless they have been again 
rooted in the tropics and s north in pots or tubs, sections of 
bamboo stems being ene ane for this purpo I came 
to realize this condition on my trip to the West es in the 
autumn of 1901, in company with Mr. Cowell, Director of the 
Buffalo Botanic Garden, and we discussed the project for the 
establishment of a nursery a great deal, and concluded that in 
order to make as complete an exhibition of tender plants as pos- 
sible in our northern conservatories such an adjunct to our work 
was necessa 
uring Profes ssor Underwood’s recent extended visit to the 
island of Jamaica, while pursuing his investigation of the ferns 
