"Experimental gardens [Tree that bears Qunine] were opened on the Nilgiri Mountains of Southern India, the Himalayas on the north of Bengal, the hills of Assam and the Northwest Provinces, and on the highlands of Burma. With the exception of the Nilgiri and Himalayas, these localities were found to be unfavorable. At Darjeeling in the Himalayas, four hundred miles north of Calcutta, near which the cinchona-gardens are located, … Cinchona alkaloid is now largely used throughout the country, with a proportionate reduction in the demand for quinine."
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Quinine in “The Tree That Bears Quinine” by Otis Robinson Bacheler quoted in: Science Monthly Volume 21 May 1882 , Wikisource.
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