PAST AND PRESENT FINANCIAL PROSPECTS OF TEA. 9 



buy land of the Government at the present high rates, but 

 many people hold large tracts in good Tea localities, and 

 would readily sell. 



There is plenty of flat land to be got, so no evil from 

 slopes need be incurred. 



Tea seed is plentiful and cheap. 



The manufacture of Tea (though still progressing) is 

 simple, economical, and more or less known. Anyhow a 

 beginner now will commence where others have left off. 



Of course to buy a made garden cheap is better than to 

 make one ; but the result in this case is of course no criterion 

 of what profit may be expected from Tea cultivation. 



As many of the items to be calculated under the heads 

 of cultivation, manufacture, and receipts will be better under- 

 stood after details on these subjects are gone into, I shall 

 reserve the consideration of " how much profit Tea can 

 ive " to the end of this treatise. 



