732 THE GARDENERS’ ee AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Aveusr 11, 1860, 
c — keep perfectly. <A tfew be, TR 
ar in that country, where the best is found. | plains and m ain ranges over which the way p pa y d 3 of suen smali hght 
Tt at e therefore represented long ago to Europea n | passed a reebok 3 a heig’ ht of 12,000 to 13,¢ those of Cinchona slung over a may 
should seek to establish the above the level of the sea and one sone pass shoulder would ave yielded ge of young 
Cinchona trees in their own possessions if their tained a height of nearly 17,000 feet. p nund, or Calcutta, or Saharunpur, 
suitable for the | was one of v iole nt storms, with hail and st snow apore, in radi one a which 
colonies contained a clima g th i Bs sie ae 
a ions the | constant rains.’ ` 
pigen, Acting — suc rey S à “ Beyond the river ora aA m4 of the them, to sa nothing of Sikkim, grobak the 
one of t most Feotats and skilful of | Tambopata, and es me point reached by Dr. best district of all, if means could be found there 
in the Cine ath of any a 
an TO i me. e 
‘ap with creepers, fallen masses of trees|season for collecting “seed had no arrived 
he a igl i boos. In man yjand_ that the — of the Government 
sent HAassKA very | places, the way led along the verge of a precipice sr have mad he attempt worse than — 
merica for the same ohana the river, which boil x d and surged useless, 3 aps att 
| š below. attention a Mr. MARKHAM in his wild and 
ached Jav were made each night on any stony ‘beach, we e could unwise oo Ti lere haces led, eet ith 
re it | find there it caution will succeed again, ere 
securely culate i in n Tant great island, a the tent, “and all da ay we toiled and struggled | charms no danke ina dashing ag adventura; os iti itis ‘ 
+ o me cle Rid to su 
1 this time the East Lopate oer, a a Oa te zag iai jungle sri ira have = 
of the I fo neg gps ng the most giddy pr ik robe want of skill in Le nning this expedition, To 
the. attention of ibe authorities in " Teadenhai KN river, gia no foot-hold but} pounce at ence upon Bolivia, although he ha) 
Street, Dr. Royt t, instructed to | dee: iiias “aes, nothin reap. but rotten | view of obtain 
eru; an zm motion a Samsun ath from the | mistake. The physioal aati of ve ‘ont 
re in his “eo so far as to have found a et branches, every o other step a painful and dan- jand 8. Peru were well known; a 
ising collector, when his lamented death put | gerous or fall.” as to political oto = cannot but believe 
pe 
an end to 4 operation, At length in 1859 it 1 Shae arias Sandia on April 24th up to May | that Mr. Witrmew, Her Majesty 
became kno at = India Boa ra again | 1 15th we had walked o we 174 miles, which may | could haye pointed them out, and saved the adven- 
darama. @ make a serious attempt to obtain | not, at first sight, appear very much; but, when it | turers from the annoyance of eles Sette 
this precious tree, and ‘that Salina had 'ommissioned |i | a considered that it was ohiely not walking, but|out of the country. e true groun egin 
bli in n hands and knees up precipices or | with was not Bolivia, but that much more northern 
and ere was not one region — sing the provinces of Huamalies 
gardener, or man of 
Cons how = mia it was t had athe "S| iE up bg "while the supply of food was | a and Hua uco, wheno e the | fine barks, second 
lector should k now how to distinguish the bse | exseeding ay a and precarious, I thin ll f only toC: Te 
kinds of Cinchona pases from each other, for many | be oon sidered toleably g ood work.” pro ocured per a omk i t would then have been 
produce bark no better than that of a Willow, in| ‘On the 17th of ieee, I left Sandia, vima soon enough to ag! Shs into the soldat of Bolivian 
what state to collect their seeds, and how to pack | Indian ee two mules carrying the plants, aad difficulties. Instead of beginning thus himself, Mr. 
them so that their vitality might be preserved, | halted under a splendid ran ges at frowning black | Marka, apparently satiated with the char 
this a bre caused no little surprise among | cliffs, near the mit of the snowy Caravaya| of —— Calisaya, commissioned a r 
those who knew the om aftenty of the enter- range. ‘On the 18th j: tie firs the s ummit of the | Prrrc “to look for Cinchona seeds 
pise; and it it was natu: classed a mong the jobs range, and commence eed the jo ner oyer; vast | th ee northward and he trusts _ that by Sep- 
fi grass d with sti te fr ber he ave b 
When erefore, a short time since, news arrived | After being’ 11 “hours in the weilate, I stopped at an | oo of es We teda : but we cannot 
that m oe oar had ended in total | abandoned shepherd’s hut built, of loose stones, | imagine why Mr. Dace ihoia not ai 
failure, credence received his instructions from Cannon Row 
and auth pon Aung poe os not co! jaap pank | were igt er my side during the night b b the | stead of Lima. y 
were p n the event. cial pavers T, Semone etween us, which, at 6 Soe at| Nor can we understand the eS of bringing 
ed us the othes z oes ts bitterly wet bat very | live plants of Cinchonas in 15 Wardian cases 
x erie that we Ponds semen diferent having asl pits and generally cloudless. On ei h I was | from Islay to Panama, thence ae the erates 
the | ue Ane Sore in the saddle, and passed th night night again | then by way of the West Indies to Southampton, 
fromthe me, | there to remain for some ip them. 
on, we st e 
s 
Te r ray ae Oy T ie where a — of the thermometer was 30°. | for India across the Egyptian desert, down th 
and net eae our inform mip ot similar leng gth, when t the burning climate of the Red Sea, till they ean 
ake i rat the pt ne ts of i dat night of the “Bist was 21 the ts st ae India. It looks 
Mr. Crements R. MARK ae is, ype appears, a and ‘of “the 22d Be. outs me to Vi “ite where | as if the e gre t purpose of Mr. M was to 
junior clerk in the India Office. Ho was selected | I procured an arriero and mules to convey me to pemes the greatest posal Er of obatadlal to 
on account of his knowledge of the country to be | Arequipa he sufferings during my six days’ | success) To per: f a less heroic te ae 
am of the language of the native Indians, and | journey over the lofty plains from Sandia to Vilque it would have email more simple to h 
of natural energy and zeal. Beyond these| were very great. The cold was intense, the work | terd a vı vessel from Islay to Bengal, by» which a 
I had with the vicious unmanageable mules was a | congeni 
oe pest ges months before starting | c onstant source of anxiety, and I Bs no food | the who passage. And this we edie g is what 
w A his best to prepare himself for the| whatever beyond a little parched Maize. Each | the- phlegmatic and successful Dutchman did. To 
ai rtaking. In a report made by him toj|day I was upwards of 10 hours in the saddle.” forward live plants to India by way of anama is 
India Board in June last, he ve an| This sort of work shows that if Mr. MARKHAw’s | something like sending them to Madeira by way of 
t | the Danube and Black Se: 
sy 
1b 
account of his proceedings, from w. the follow- | expedition was unsuccessful it was not from wan anube and a. 
—On the 12th March of the|of energy. But was it unsuccessful? It is stated hile we have thus endeavoured to = jai 
ea he left Arequipa, a to Southern | that by incredible labo hourly danger, to Mr. Marxwaw’s personal energy, 
1 anc — FIR, a gardener, and travelling | plants of Cinchonas of one sort or other, chiefly | have also confirmed our poaae Ae t 
on peta ed at the c f P the banks | Calisayas, had been brought down to the of | his tion has been a great failure, if note 
oi e Titicaca, on the 2 a very painfulj Islay, of w 73 had Joel ka cold, or | complete one. Let usat the same et him right 
jonrney, over snowy heights 15,500 feet above the | been eisai = lost. Of the remaining 456, some | upon a matter of fact. In the letter from this 
of the sea, in the worst season o were ‘large rooted plants without foliage,” the | gentleman published in “3 last week’s columns, 
the rigours of which were increased by the he debility ai e v s 
suppose to have been seedlings. The | he s it is untrue that a simi p ( 
Repetto on by an illness from which he had suffered | whole were packed ip 15 Wardi ‘cae ae which | his was has been faocli undertaken by the 
Arequipa, and by the sorochi, or hec t head- | cases have reached Southampton on their way to | French Government.” Nobody said so. It was 
aches bine India, where it would seem, from a hint in the = aa ag French had been successful, but 
paper before us, they are to be established in the | no made of the French government. 
Nilgherry hills. But how many reached South- That th the: French. havesucceeded is we submit proved 
m n alive? How many will reach Bombay or r the = biva little facts :—1. Dr. WEDDELL, 
— or whatever — — India may be in French employment, brough 
ir destina a passage down the Red ne 2. Some 
Seo? We may hope for the bat be but fear the} s t Plants ; 
rst. r- {8 that of the Horticultural Society in the yi 
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wors 
It would be e very ungenerous, thi pl 
tion to deny Messrs, “ MARK eget WEI . 
merit of perseverance aaa intrepid hardihood ji tura i re of 
e|and if those qualities saa could hav sufficed, was published in the year 1853, in Paxton’s 
e been not | Magazi i also 
he e he 
regard the m as being very like a failure, | Society, Vol. VII, 272. 
| Not a seed has been obtained. Yet the true object | December, 1852, a ‘ins beliy van os el 
| of the expedition should have been seeds—and| in a Wardian case an ted to 
the|seeds only. Nothing was to be gained by|Co om: y for transmission to : we belie 
|serambling at = ow risk of death after a ed s taken out by Mr. Fortune, with others 
few seedlings or suckers, to be carried to Europe m Kew, but periched after ite amiri 16 wil 
eee e prospect “of of getting th them there alive and eal ore qi seen that Mr. Marxmaw’s allegation 
oing so. Dr.|is by no means su; eer tof all Tioti; toe pe 
Wen Bam a0 rosie grow as as nats as if ge had been | ought to have been info: —— 
The fresh gathered ; howing that th pepon 
