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"At the beginning of the year the total stock of Tpecacuanha 
amounted to five plants in Sikkim, and seven in this garden. These 
Dr. Hooker, of the Koyal Gardens, Kew, in 1866. The five plants in 
Sikkim were, early in the current year, submitted by Messrs. Gammie, 
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began to arrive. Five wardian cases, containing about 100 plants, were 
received from Dr. Balfour, of the Royal Botanical Garden ; and three 
cases, containing 150 plants, from Messrs. Lawson, the eminent nursery- 
and by a very small expenditure on a road, will be readily accessible 
from the Cinchona plantation. As the experiment proceeds, it will be 
necessary to put a gardener. specially in charge of it, who will have to 
live at Sookna. In the meantime, it is not of sufficient magnitude to 
seed in this country, although flowers have frequently been cec 
we em therefore look to increase by cuttings and other artificial 
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