March r, 1882.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
785 
faoture 
in adn 
These 
inferioi 
extract 
of goo 
adopt 
ure, 1I1 
the In 
abound 
anight, 
force I 
ad often other objects 
1a the mere alkaloids. 
Dr. Paul did 
that tiie value 
amount of alka 
between flat cnl 
but cinchonine 
and another bai 
Mr. Cleaver i 
Invited discussii 
kinds of hark ; 
our they runld 
The Prosidon 
Mr. Cleaver s 
these barks in 
that pharmacist 
be sold with a 
pride, he had 11 
phar 
t the cinchotauuic acid and bitter 
y yielded in quantity by certain barks 
'of the ground for 'tee systi 
Ecard can fleVjuBMedi 
on of one or more of thV cinchona 
m h to be understood as'suggesting 
£70 on it, this most desir 
must remain in abeyance. 
"From the share of the 
ark should be judged by the relative 
. whirl, eoiituinnl no :i ] k:i 1< >i . l' at all, 
lii.-li rtould conlain both. 1 1 
rked that Mr. Howard in his paper 
1 the therapeutical value of different 
last year by Government, tl 
of the Board, about 2,700 
From last year's stock 47!) 
to various public institutions 
to the Tararua Mountains, 
that seomed a difficult subject, and 
go into without medical evidence. 
with regard to the employment of 
■In to reuuire that each' 1 bark should 
live" alpine plaXfroiu Tn 
feet, among which were se 
"A valuable collection i 
known in the live state, h 
gardens by the taxidermist 
panied the "Stella" on the 
antee. If they would pay a decent 
mbt that they would find wholesale 
Islands, in March last. 
" The Board has been in 
and ornamental plants. 
;ies, in its climate and 
utre for the cultivation 
dents; but, until the 
ing a sum of about 
ition to the gardens 
■ill. 
a fair proportioi 
wholesale.) drUL'L-isI 
bought, or could 
to supply intending customers wit! 
they wanted. 
1 analv, 
and wi 
it of the 
•arks they 
y pleased 
the harks 
hiding 
he soil 
is far 
^POTATO DISEASE EXPERIMENTS IN SCOTLAND. 
Mr. James A. Gordon, of Arabella, Easter Ross, N.B., 
repealed this year again the experiments, which, as not- 
iced in /'//" Field at the time, he conducted last year, 
in order to ascertain Hie disease resisting 
Bqperties of several new varieties of potat 
was good loam, and the climate of Easte 
above the average of Scotland. Mr. Gordon endeavoured 
to grow Mime new varieties from the seedling, but none 
of I hem satisfied him except a new sort of Victoria, 
which is proving remarkably well. It is a capital cropper, 
rc-i-.t^ disease wonderfully, grows a tine uniform kind 
of a tuber, and i- highly appreciated on the table. 
The ground for the different trials received the same 
treatment and manuring in every way, and the sets 
vwere deposited in the first week of May. In addition 
to about L6 tons stable dung per imperial acre, the 
manure, applied consisted of 2j cwt. each of bone meal, 
kainit, and mineral BUperphosphate, 1 cwt. Peruvian 
guano, and J cwt. sulphate of ammonia. The crop was 
good and comparatively disease-free, as the following 
results show : — 
Total weight 
Marketable. Diseased. Undersized, per acre, 
tons. cwt. tons. cwt. tons. cwt. tous. cwt. 
Champions u o o i:» 3 0 12 13 
New Seeillim; 
Victoria 10 0 trnco 10 11 0 
HnRinnn Bonnm 7 10 trnco 0 16 8 6 
I.iiM year the different soi ls stood ill the same relat- 
ive order as above in regard to weight per ai re. The 
yield this year, though good, and abovu the averii I 
the country, i- .-lightly under that of 1880. — Field. 
ducing to 
and foliage 
great value 
represented 
was about 
and that it 
.lapane.-e \ 
competent 
was cordial 
twelve case 
directly the means of intro- 
lsignineut of Japanese fruit 
ivill, it is expected, prove of 
N VAX Zl.AI.ANK P.OTAMC CAUDKNS. 
The twelfth annual report of the Botanic Gordon Hoard 
of New Zealand has been issued, from which it appears 
that the gardens are in a somewhat starved condition, 
and that the power.-, that be do not fully apprei iatti the 
Importance of a botanical garden as a centre for the 
191 
ity for getting 
by a thoroughly 
Che suggestion 
It, in April last, 
800 plants, of 
;es, 1,000 Per- 
ts, 150 Maples, 
OIL OF ANDA-ASSU.* 
(Pharmaceutical Journal, 5th Nov. 1881.) 
Johannesia prwtceps, Veil. (Anda Gomesii, Juss,, Anda 
braxilicnsis, Radl., Andicus pentaphyUm, Veil.), is a 
large tree of Brazil, belonging to the natural family 
Euphorbiaecic, growing along the coast on sandy soil, 
but also much cultivated in the interior. It has numerous 
spreading branches, digitate leaves, with five eni ire oval- 
hinccolatc leaflets, each with a petiole, and all attached 
to a common petiole haviug from two to live glands al 
tho point of insertion ef the leaves. The Ho vers nro 
pale-yellow, in irregular terminal panicles, ti e male 
flowers on stalks, the female sessile. The fruit is a nut 
over three inches in diameter, almost heart-shaped, or 
indistinctly four cornered. The kernel is oval, somewhat 
compressed, with two prominent and two rather indis- 
tinct corners. Martina states that the shape of the nuts, 
as they appear in the market, is so different tl it prob- 
ably several species are tho sources of them. The seeds, 
of which there are two, seldom three, are a ml the 
size of a small plum, somewliat kidncy-shapi .i I OOI 
ereil with a firm, dark-brown epidermis. a They have an 
agreeable almond-like, or Imzcl-niit-liko flavour, and 
contain a fatty oil. 
Thesi ,1s arc known in lia/.il under the I dlowing 
names: andtl-aad ; aiidd-QWicil ; indaiaai ; forfnyuotf; 
mgga d<- ytiUia (in Rio ae Jaueiso nud S. Paolo); coco 
de putga : fWgo do.* Vmilitla* ; /ruin dc ardrd (in 
Minns). They have been used from ancient times as an 
eticcii e purgative, and have particularly beef found 
• From New nemdtet, September lfeyi. 
