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of this locality to be all I could desire for the plants ; and as it afforded 

 everj facility for carrying out so valuable an experiment, I at once availed 

 myself of it, and planted out in the coffee fields on the 16tli Xovember 

 several plants of each species, then about two or two and a half inches in 

 height. In twelve months after, a plant of the red bark, Cinchona succi- 

 rubra^ had attained to the height of forty-four inches, with leaves measur- 

 ing thirteen and a half inches in length, by eight and three-quarters in 

 breadth. The same plant, now two years old, measures six feet in height 

 with ten branches, having a circumference of stem at base of four and a 

 half inches. The plants of Cinchona micrantha, grey bark, being of more 

 slender habit of growth, have not made such rapid progress ; the highest 

 has attained to five feet with three branches. The leaves, however, are 

 larger, and measure fourteen by ten inches. So far the experiment has 

 thus proved eminently successful. It would be difficult to find more 

 healthy trees in the forests of that neighbourhood ; and, in about three 

 or four years hence, they may be expected to produce seeds. In the mean- 

 time they can be largely increased by cuttings and layers, in the hands 

 of a skilful propagator. During the months of August and September 

 1862 the collection was again removed to Bath. The plants were at this 

 time eighteen or twenty months old, a critical period for forest trees in 

 ■flower pots under artificial treatment, and in a climate too so uncongenial 

 for them as that of Bath, which would have terminated their lives had 

 they not soon afterwards (13th October) been planted out at Mount Essex, 

 near Bath, at an altitude of two thousand feet, or little more. This site, 

 as a temporary one, was had recourse to to save the plants alive until a 

 better could be obtained ; and so far it has answered the purpose, and a 

 majority of the plants are healthy, but have not made such rapid progress 

 as could have been desired. The soil is too loamy and by far too stiff to 

 admit of a free and rapid escape of the rains which fall here in torrents 

 during the greater part of the year, and the altitude far too low for the 

 Peruvian barks. The red bark thrives at a much lower altitude, and, 

 being a more hardy tree, the plants are more healthy. A very important 

 fact has now been established — viz., that the climate of our higher, and 

 many of our intermediate, mountains is suited for the growth of the most 

 valuable species of quinine-yielding plants — Cincliona succirubra. A 

 knowledge also of the method of increasing the plants, and of the soil best 

 adapted for their full development has been obtained. 



TIL Notice of tlie Occurrence of "Woodsia alpina (hyperborea) in Gaspe^ 

 Canada East. — By George Lawson, LL.D., Professor of Chemistry, 

 Dalhousie College, Halifax, Xova Scotia. 



Professor Lawson stated that this rare fern {Woodsia alpina) had not 

 been found by any recent collector in Canada, and no one knew where 

 to look for it. He bad recently described, however, in connection with 

 Woodsia glcd)eUa, and under the name of var. Belli, a remarkable Wood- 

 sia found in Gaspe on the Dartmouth River, 20 miles from its mouth, by 

 his former pupil, Mr John Bell. This plant, on further examination, 

 turned out to be the Woodsia alpina. He enclosed a specimen. 



IV. Remarks on Myrica cerifera, or Candleherry Myrtle. — By Professor 

 Lawson, Dalhousie College, Halifax. 



I found Myrica cerifera a few days ago in some quantity on a hillside 

 near Halifax, with, small birds feeding on the berries. It is variously 

 called Wax Myrtle, Candleberry Tree, and Tallow Shrub, in reference to 



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