JAN. —MAR. 1857.] 



Peruvian Bark-tree. 



rience in the investigation of nature, had become a clever botanist, 

 and whose writings testify to his strict exactness and scrupulous 

 nicety in the smallest particulars ; his love of truth is above all 

 praise ; his special knowledge of the subject must be a guarantee 

 against all mistake. With such security for my conviction, I thought 

 to be able 5 d priori, to foresee, that from the seeds which the Go- 

 vernment has been pleased to entrust to the Botanical Gardens, if 

 they germinated, no other plants than the Calisaya Quinine-tree 

 would appear, under which name I received them. 



"The result has not disappointed the expectation. The Quin- 

 quinas here developed are Calisaya plants. A strict inquiry has 

 proved this to me as certainly as science only can. 



" Under date of the 21st of October, 1854, the Governor-Gene- 

 ral informed the Colonial Minister that a great part of the Quin- 

 quina plants had attained such a growth that they could be planted 

 out in a regular garden. Later advices concerning the planting 

 out do not inform us of the preservation of the greatest number of 

 the plants which came up from seeds at the Tjibodas, but this was 

 not to be expected ; this has nowhere, or never been the case with 

 transplantation. Experience yet teaches us that plants produced 

 from seeds do not always grow up and remain sound. 



" The result of the culture of the Quinquina, under the direction 

 and care of Mr. Teysmann, as well those obtained from seeds of 

 Mr. Hasskarl, as those sent on former occasions from Leyden and 

 Amsterdam, is as follows : — 



" In the beginning of the month of November, 1854, Mr. Teys- 

 mann went to Tjipannas to prepare the ground for the transplant- 

 ing of the Quinquina plants there. 



" The ground which Mr. Teysmann judged proper for the pur- 

 pose was then covered with heavy wood ; this however being pre- 

 pared, the transplanting began. It was about half a mile above 

 the Garden of Tjibodas, perhaps 300 or 400 feet higher than this 

 place, and consequently 4600 to 4700 feet above the level of the 

 sea. The soil is very mouldy, with a porous, greasy, red subsoil, 

 in which trees of colossal height, mostly 150 feet, with a diameter 



