Cinchona Cultivation in British Sikkim
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Darjeeling, is very striking. Propagation by cuttings from stock plants is effected with great rapidity. "When the plants have been subjected to the hardening process, all that is needful is to place them in the soil by hand, no preliminary preparation being needed, excepting the marking out of the situation of each plant on the ground, from which the jungle has been thoroughly cleared and burnt, and the digging up of the soil to a depth of
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Notes on Cinchona Cultivation in British Sikkim (Near Darjeeling)
By Joseph Ewart, M. D., Trofessor of Physiology, Medical College of Bengal. Among the many substantial and enduring benefits conferred upon India by English rule, the introduction of the " quinineyielding" cinchonas will not be considered by posterity the least important. Already the enterprise has passed beyond the boundary line of an experiment, and reached the goal of success. A few short ye...
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