Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1890 — American Quinine. [ARTICLE]

American Quinine.

Adolph Sutro is trying the experiment of raising cinchona trees at his grounds above the Cliff house. It is from the bark of about a dozen varieties of this tree that quinine is extracted, and if they will thrive in this climate the trees will become very valuable- Moreover, the cinchona is a very showy tree and highly ornamental, some of them growing to a height of eighty feet The enormous medicinal consumption of the bark of the cinchona has caused tbejtree to be extensively cultivated in India and Java. It grows in high altitudes in NewGreo4u t Ecuador, Peru, aod Bolivia, where ; there is a great deal of moisture -It has teen tried with success in Australia and Mr. .Sutro thinks some of the varieties will grow here, where there | is a moisture in the atmosphere all the year found. —San Francisco Examiner.