146 CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE OF TEA. 



I must not pass over Caper without a short description. It is 

 a Tea which is made in large quantity in China, though I have only 

 seen one parcel of Indian growth. It forms a link between the black 

 and green descriptions. The colour of the leaf is a very dark green ; 

 in form it is similar to a gunpowder, Imperial, or round leaf Congou. 

 The liquor is pale, and the out-turn green ; flavour perhaps nearer to 

 that of a green than of a Black Tea. 



