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be forwarded to Madras : should they thrive thei-e, it is my 

 opinion that they will never attain any height, at least not 

 like ours, but be dwarfish like the China plants. Deenjoy, 

 Ckubiva, Tingri, and Gheela-Jhan tracts have been filled up 

 or enlarged with plants from the jungle tracts. In trans- 

 planting from one sunny tract to another, when done in the 

 rains, very kw, if any, die; if the plants be removed from a 

 deep shade to a sunny tract, the risk is greater, but still? it 

 there is plenty of rain, few only will die. If from a deep 

 shade to a piece of ground not a Tea tract, and exposed to 

 the sun — for instance from x\i^Naga hills to Jaipore; if there 

 be plenty of rain, and the soil congenial, as it is at this place, 

 few will die ; if shaded by a few trees, less will perish ; it 

 taken from shade, and planted in shade and the soil uncon- 

 genial, but there is plenty of rain, the greater portion will 

 live; witness Toongroong Patar ai Sadiya. If the plants are 

 brought from deep shade, and planted in the sun in uncon- 

 genial soil, let them have ever so much rain, not one in fihy 

 will be alive the third year; witness 30,000 brought to Sadipd' 

 I believe the Tea plant to be so hardy that it would almost 

 live in any soil, provided it were planted in deep shade when 

 taken to it. There should be plenty of water near the roots, 

 but the plant should always be above inundation. As soon 

 as it has taken root, which it will soon do, the shade may be 

 removed, and there will be no fear of the plant dying. 



" In clearing a new Tea tract, if the jungle trees are very 

 large and numerous, it would be as well to make a clean 

 sweep of the whole, by cutting them and the Tea plants all 

 down together; for it would be impossible to get rid of so 

 much wood without die help of fire. The Tea plants, if al- 

 lowed to remain, would be of little use after they had been 



crushed and broken by the fall of the larse trees, and dried 



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 up by the fire; but admitting that they could escape all 



this, the leaves of trees from twelve to twenty feet high coulcl 

 not be reached, and if they could, they would be almost use- 

 less for Tea manufacture, as it is the young leaves, from young 

 trees, that produce the best Teas. But if all were cut down 



