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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

Burma.—

Burma.—

Major Seaton reports rather unfavourably on the prospects of Cinchona cultivation. The plantation appears to have been made as far back as 1871:—" All things considered, the Cinchona experiment does not promise well. The oldest trees dying off, and the trees of very small size flowering and fruiting freely, aw only too sure signs that the tree finds itself in a site not adapted to its requirements." It appears, however, that a Ceylon planter has made inquiries about a grant of land in the neighbourhood. It is possible, that with the technical knowledge as to the methods of cultivation of Cinchona, and of obtaining a speedy financial return from it, which have been worked out in Ceylon, a better face may be put upon the experiment in Burma.