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CINCHONA CULTIVATION IN INDIA. 
6,000 feet, and there existed a large demand for the seeds 
from almost every part of the world. Three parcels, con- 
taining 235,000 seeds of the three best varieties, had been 
forwarded for the use of the Mexican Government. Captain 
Maury, of the State of Virginia, had been supplied with a 
packet from the gardens, and all the information that had 
been gained by the botanists there respecting their cultiva- 
tion. Mr. Cross, the gardener who conveyed portions of the 
original collection to India, was commissioned to visit New 
Granada, and make a collection of the most valuable species 
which grow in that republic. The only drawback to the 
complete success of the cultivation during the year was the 
condition of the private estates, which had received a check, 
and their value had fallen considerably in the market. 
Looking around, however, the experiment appeared to be 
gaining ground in various quarters. Good progress was 
making at Darjeeling, where the total number of cinchonas 
was 3,028,110, viz., 2,232,532 in Government, and 795,578 
in private plantations, whilst the area planted was about 965 
acres. The fact of several private companies entering upon 
this cultivation on a large scale was regarded by the autho- 
rities as some guarantee of the ultimate success of the growth 
of these febrifuge trees on the slopes of the Himalayas. 
Seeds had been sent to Mysore, where the cultivation did 
not make such rapid strides as had been anticipated. In 
British Burmah a carefully-selected site had been planted, 
and the co-operation of the residents had been gained. It 
was feared, however, that, as a commercial speculation, an 
elevation of 2,000 feet would be insufficient, but the natural- 
isation of the bark could not fail to be a great blessing to the 
native population. In Travancore, the Government had esta- 
blished its garden in 1862, and we find in 1867 that 3,495 
plants were raised from cuttings, and planted in a new clear- 
ing. Ten acres of forest land had been set aside for the 
purpose of cultivating the cinchona, and about six acres had 
been cleared and planted. Dr. Cleghorn, Conservator of 
Forests at Madras, who subsequently visited Peermade, in 
company with Mr. Markham, observes that “ the Travancore 
sirkar has well seconded the efforts of the British Government, 
and that the results of the experiment is more successful here 
than anywhere else in Southern India, excepting in the 
Neilgherries.” 
The latest stage in the experiment is summed up in the 
dispatch from the India Office, dated 19th May, 1870. The 
series of careful and judicious analyses made by Mr. Brough- 
ton had resulted in practical conclusions upon certain im- 
