Mr. Morris writes:—

"My chief care at the Cinchona plantation is the establishment of large open air nurseries instead of the glass propagating houses which I found here. I sow the seed under thatched sheds and prick out the plants into beds shaded by ferns. This is a simple inexpensive style which is universally adopted in Ceylon, but unknown here. I fear that the system of glass houses and propagating and hardening frames has done much to frighten people from trying Cinchona here, and besides [the Government plantations] have never been able to distribute more than a few hundred plants, as they had not enough for their own use. In a few months, by next planting season, I shall have 80,000 which I can conveniently spare, and by the end of the year, possibly 500,000."