Peruvian bark tree plantations in the Neilgherry Hills, India: Sir William Denison, Governor of Madras, planting the first tree in a new plantation, 1862. 'Mr. Clements Markham, of the India Office, was the duty of superintending all the necessary arrangements for the collection of cinchona plants and seeds in South America, and for their introduction into into the forests of Caravaya, in Southern Peru, which had never before been trodden by any supply of bark from South America was every year becoming more and more precarious, o
Peruvian bark tree plantations in the Neilgherry Hills, India: Sir William Denison, Governor of Madras, planting the first tree in a new plantation, 1862. 'Mr. Clements Markham, of the India Office, was the duty of superintending all the necessary arrangements for the collection of cinchona plants and seeds in South America, and for their introduction into into the forests of Caravaya, in Southern Peru, which had never before been trodden by any supply of bark from South America was every year becoming more and more precarious, owing to improvident and reckless felling of the trees. The introduction of the cinchona-trees into India had, therefore, become a matter of the greatest importance. Not only India, but the whole civilised world, will derive incalculable benefit from this Engraving represents [Sir William Denison] in the act of planting the first plant in one of the new cinchona plantations, accompanied M'lvor, the Superintendent of Cinchona Plantations (in the foreground holding a spade). In the background is another thriving cinchona to the right is a nursery of young cinchona plants'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.
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