Travels in Peru and India by Sir Clements R. Markham

several varieties. The seeds are much eaten by the poorer classes when rice is dear, and are reckoned a wholesome substantial food. Cattle are very fond of the stalks. One variety, with white flowers, is cultivated in gardens, supported on poles, forming arbours about the doors of houses. The pods are eaten, but not the seeds. [Illustration: Cereals.] [497] Built in 1749 by the Peishwa Balajee Bajee Rao. [498] "The cultivation of the chinchona-trees may succeed in localities not appearing to offer exactly the same conditions regarding climate and the general character of the country as are peculiar to their native forests."--_Report by Dr. Brandis_ (Supplement to the _Calcutta Gazette_, August 31, 1861), p. 467. [499] "Mr. McIvor deserves great credit for the manner in which he has laid out the garden. It is both a beautiful pleasure-ground, and a valuable public institution for the improvement of indigenous, and the naturalisation of foreign plants; and it has been formed from the commencement by Mr. McIvor, with great industry and artistic skill, out of a rude ravine."--_Minute by Sir Charles Trevelyan_, Feb. 24th, 1860. [500] _Cleghorn_, p. 318. [501] _Cleghorn_, p. 180 and 359. [502] I have supplied Mr. McIvor with the following works on the chinchona-plants:--