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Anderson would like Hooker to get him a set of hot water apparatus for heating his Cinchona pit at Darjeeling. He is in no hurry as he shall not fix them before November but he remits now as the exchange rate is favourable. He shall send Hooker the particulars once he gets accurate measurements of the house. The mowing machines are most admirable; they will save their expense in a year by setting free 16 mowers at Rs5 a month. It remains to be seen how they will work in the rains, he thinks a larger size may work better, but these are the largest known out there. Anderson's natural groups are doing well and the plants are beginning to make a show in the garden. The number of species cultivated in the garden has been greatly increased. Everything put out is named and the antiquated nomenclature of the garden is disappearing. The herbarium is progressing steadily and many orders are completed thanks to Thomson and Black. Thomson's determination of Euphorbiaceae and Asclepieadaceae are invaluable. Anderson wishes he could get grasses named after the RBG Kew specimens. The Darjeeling open air cultivation of Cinchona is still successful. It has been a severe winter and the plants have not suffered. C. pahudian too is looking up; De Vrij writes that the plants of this species at Ootacamund have quinine in their bark, while Anderson found alkaloids in their leaves in September. He feels certain that more quinine will be produced at Darjeeling than Madras [Chennai]. The bark and leaves of the Darjeeling plants are thicker than those of Ootacamund and Java. Pages 1 and 4 of 4.

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Anderson would like Hooker to get him a set of hot water apparatus for heating his Cinchona pit at Darjeeling. He is in no hurry as he shall not fix them before November but he remits now as the exchange rate is favourable. He shall send Hooker the particulars once he gets accurate measurements of the house. The mowing machines are most admirable; they will save their expense in a year by setting free 16 mowers at Rs5 a month. It remains to be seen how they will work in the rains, he thinks a larger size may work better, but these are the largest known out there. Anderson's natural groups are doing well and the plants are beginning to make a show in the garden. The number of species cultivated in the garden has been greatly increased. Everything put out is named and the antiquated nomenclature of the garden is disappearing. The herbarium is progressing steadily and many orders are completed thanks to Thomson and Black. Thomson's determination of Euphorbiaceae and Asclepieadaceae are invaluable. Anderson wishes he could get grasses named after the RBG Kew specimens. The Darjeeling open air cultivation of Cinchona is still successful. It has been a severe winter and the plants have not suffered. C. pahudian too is looking up; De Vrij writes that the plants of this species at Ootacamund have quinine in their bark, while Anderson found alkaloids in their leaves in September. He feels certain that more quinine will be produced at Darjeeling than Madras [Chennai]. The bark and leaves of the Darjeeling plants are thicker than those of Ootacamund and Java. Pages 1 and 4 of 4.

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Anderson would like Hooker to get him a set of hot water apparatus for heating his Cinchona pit at Darjeeling. He is in no hurry as he shall not fix them before November but he remits now as the exchange rate is favourable. He shall send Hooker the particulars once he gets accurate measurements of the house. The mowing machines are most admirable; they will save their expense in a year by setting free 16 mowers at Rs5 a month. It remains to be seen how they will work in the rains, he thinks a larger size may work better, but these are the largest known out there. Anderson's natural groups are doing well and the plants are beginning to make a show in the garden. The number of species cultivated in the garden has been greatly increased. Everything put out is named and the antiquated nomenclature of the garden is disappearing. The herbarium is progressing steadily and many orders are completed thanks to Thomson and Black. Thomson's determination of Euphorbiaceae and Asclepieadaceae are invaluable. Anderson wishes he could get grasses named after the RBG Kew specimens. The Darjeeling open air cultivation of Cinchona is still successful. It has been a severe winter and the plants have not suffered. C. pahudian too is looking up; De Vrij writes that the plants of this species at Ootacamund have quinine in their bark, while Anderson found alkaloids in their leaves in September. He feels certain that more quinine will be produced at Darjeeling than Madras [Chennai]. The bark and leaves of the Darjeeling plants are thicker than those of Ootacamund and Java. Pages 1 and 4 of 4.