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alists of this country and Europe, who expressed the most en- 
thusiastic appreciation of the scheme. My action was approved 
by the Scientific Directors of the Garden in October, and arrange- 
ments have since been made to commence the carrying out of 
plans both for the nursery and the laboratory, in cooperation with 
the Department of Public Gardens and Plantations of Jamaica. 
he government of Jamaica began cultural experiments with 
Fic. 1. A laboratory at the tropical station, Cinchona, Jamaica. 
Cinchona in 1860 with seeds sent out by Sir Joseph Hooker, 
from Kew, and after preliminary trials a tract of six hundred 
acres of land on the southern slopes of the Blue Mountains be- 
tween the elevations of 4,000 and 6,000 feet was set aside as a 
plantation in 1868 and forty acres planted with five species of 
Geae the quinine trees of the Andes. A number of other 
trees from various parts of the world were also introduced and 
still flourish in this location. The reservation was increased at 
various times until the areas used for various experimental pur- 
