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Show Anierloun Quinine. Adolph Stitro is trying the experiment of raising cinchona trees at his grounds above tho Cliff house. It is from the bark of about a dozen varieties of this trco that quinine is extracted, and if they will thrive in this climate tho trees Will become very valuable. Moreover, the chinchona is a very showy tree and highly ornamental, some of them growing to n height of eighty feet. The enormous medicinal consumption consump-tion of the bark of tho cinchona Has caueed tho tree to bo extensively cultivated culti-vated in India and Java. It grows in high altitudes in New Grenada, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, where there is a great deal of moisture. It Has been tried with success in Australia, near tho seacoast, and Mr. Sutro thinks some of tho varieties varie-ties will grow Hero, where there is a moisture in tho atmosphere all tho year . round. San Francisco Examiner. |