. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. CINCHONA and its varieties Ledgeriana and verde ; "Cartliagena ; from ; "Columbian ;from 6'. cordif'ili" and C. lancifolia ; "Gray barli," from C. mirniiilli'i
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. CINCHONA and its varieties Ledgeriana and verde ; "Cartliagena ; from ; "Columbian ;from 6'. cordif'ili" and C. lancifolia ; "Gray barli," from C. mirniiilli'i. I', nitida a,nii C. Peruviana. Ciiinin :(ls, namely, quinine, quinidine, eincho- ninr .111(1 , occur in these harks in varying quantities in ditt'erent species. Tlirsc :ilKaloids |missc-ss powerful antiperiodic, tonic and ;ini i^-i^i ir |ii-n|>i ii irs. in the barks there are also quiiii'vir :inil nilnr inids, and other substances possessinjL: ;i, properties which render them useful in certain cases, where the alkaloids have failed to give relief. The bark was introduced into Europe in 1640, by the Countess of Chinchon, wife of the Viceroy of Peru ; hence it was called Countess' powder and Peruvian bark, and also Jesuits' bark, from the knowledge of it spread by that religious order. The word quinine is de- rived from the name by which it was known in Peru, qitinittjiiJua, or "bark of ; Dr. Ainslie, at the end of the eighteenth century, and Dr. Forbes Royle, in his work on Himalayan botany in 1839, advocated the introduction of the trees into India. At length, in 1859, Clements Markhani -was entrusted by the government of India with the task of collecting plants and seeds on the Andes, and establishing them in India. In his book "Pertivian Bark : a popular ac- count of the introduction of Cinchona cultivation into CINCHONA 317. ^I'SkW- m^ racemosa. Amer. and his final success. The object of the govern ment was to put
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