ought to suit ipecacuanha perfectly. * * * We have been per 
a fem suecessful in propagating the plant € rt repe and seed, 
* and it grows luxuriantly under cover. But out of doors the low night 
* temperature of the cold weather proves too severe for it. During the 
* year 26 pounds of the dried root, taken from plants grown in frames, 
“ under Mr. Jaffrey’s care at Run ngbee, were sent to the medical depôt 
* for use, previous trials havi hg peering the “ew of the 
* Sikkim-grown drug.” Aga July 10th, 1879: “I have been — 
* obliged to give up all hope of ‘the profitable cultivation of the drug 
* in Nerthern India, the climate being unsuitable.” 
Here its official history i in this part of India closes. But the follow- 
ing extract from a letter addres to Kew by Mr. Gammie, thé 
resident manager of the Government Cinchona Pisatabions at Darjeel- 
ing, November llth, 1886, illustrates in a striking way the v aried | 
te nt ew te 
** differed greatly from each other. All the Kew plants were of one 
the start the Kew variety. It 
* rougher in the leaf lani the Edinburgh cil and rot so strong - 
* growing while under glas 
* After we had satisfied REY es that we could make nothing of | 
ipecacuanha from a commercial point of view, we put all the plants 
* out in the open, under shade, and let them take their e 
* this time we had all the sorts mixed up together, and as w 
- originally at least, ten Edinburgh ts for each one of the j 
* sort, and the Edinburgh lot had, Paidra; been much hae 
* growers under glass, the Kew plants formed formed less than five pe 
up thios bai But i vege the Edinburgh dám. begi dis- 
** appear, until, in the a year or two, there was not x ng 
* plant of dé of the Ydinbugh varieties alive, whilst almost every 
* plant of the =v variety lived. Of it, at the aay deem e 
* have a good stock, and in one place, at 1,400 feet elevation, unde 
* the shade of living trees, we have plants whic 
E ed ago in the most perfect health, but, unfortunately, their gro 
has been so slow as to render the prospect o: fitable 
* from them almost hopeless. Still it strikes me that in plac 
* graphically better situated for ipecacuanha growing than 
“ that this particular variety succeed although other 
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