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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...quinia plantations, or, as they are called here, quinales, are cultivated and nourished with care and agricultural science, the principal planters being Germans, one, Mr. Otto Richter, possessing nearly 2,000,000 plants. The estate of Mr. Schukraft, a Hollander, lately deceased, contains another 2,000,000. Quinia plantations, in cultivated order and with care, have been going on for about seven years, hardly long enough to show all the advantages, as there is room for much study and improvement. Mapire, about sixty leagues north of this place, or about five days' journey, contains in cultivation about 4,500,000 plants; Songo, northeast of this city,500,000 plants; Yungas, east-northeast twenty leagues, 1,000,000 plants; Guanay, east of Mapire, 500,000 plants; total, 6,500,000 plants. Where the principal quinales are is a very rough and broken country, the Andes being seamed and cut into deep valleys iu every direction. The trees are planted on the sides of the valleys or ridges in altitudes of about three to four thousand feet above the sea. They will grow higher up, even to eight thousand feet, but are stunted and will give little or nothing of what is called here " the quinia." The plants want a great deal of sun, heavy rains, and fresh winds. I have conversed with three of the principal superintendents of the large quinia plantations, all Germans, and they say that the cultivation of quinia is yet in its infancy, and there will be many improvements through time and experience. A tree will give from fifteen to twenty pounds of seed. The seed is collected in November and December, or this hemisphere's early summer mouths, and planted very thickly in boxes or beds about 12 feet in length and 3 feet in breadth, and placed on a slight decline or fal...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130367232
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 404
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130367231
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 717 gr


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