Georgia Bark
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a small tree of the southern United States closely resembling the cinchona or Peruvian bark, and belonging to the natural order Cinchonaceæ. It has pretty, large white flowers, with longitudinal stripes of rosecolor. The wood is soft and unfit for use in the arts. The inner bark is extremely bitter, and is employed with success in intermittent fevers. GEORGIA, GULF OF, a large gulf of the North Pacific Ocean, between the continent of North America and Vancouver's Island; about 120 miles in length from N. to S.; the breadth varies greatly in its different parts, from 6 miles to 20. It communicates with the ocean on the N. by Queen Charlotte's Sound and on the S. by the Strait of Juan de Fuca. GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOL- OGY, an institution for higher education, at Atlanta, Ga., founded in 1888. There were in 1920 2,224 students and 100 members of the faculty . The school is supported by the State and has no The yearly income is endowment. $240,000. President, K. J. Matheson. LL. D. GEORGIA, SOUTH, an island in the South Atlantic, lat. at its N. point, 53° 57' S.; lon. 38° 13' W. It is 90 miles long, and has high and rocky coasts, inaccessible from ice during a great part of the year . It abounds with seals and sea-fowl. GEORGIA, UNIVERSITY OF, a nonsectarian State institution in Athens, Ga.; founded in 1801; reported at the close of 1920: Professors and instructors , 85; students, 1,263; volumes in the library, about 45,000; chancellor, David C. Barrow, LL.D.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The tree Collier's described in 1921 is Pinckneya bracteata (long known as P. pubens), and the "large white flowers with longitudinal stripes of rosecolor" are in fact showy pink bracts rather than petals. Its use "with success in intermittent fevers" belongs wholly to the past: malaria was declared eliminated from the United States in 1951, and the bark, though genuinely bitter, was never a real substitute for cinchona, which yields quinine. The family name Cinchonaceae has been absorbed into the Rubiaceae, and the tree survives today mainly as an ornamental of wet pine-savanna edges in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, where it is rare enough to be a conservation concern.
Written for this edition, 2026.