80 EXPENSE IX AMERICA. 



dern Scythian of North America, who wanders from farm 

 to farm, and from State to State. A tea plantation may 

 go on for 100 years. A tree will last 25 years. When 

 it shows any symptoms of decline, it only requires to 

 drop a seed by its side. No labor, no care, no loss of 

 time is thereby occurred. If a garden hedge be required, 

 a fence round a field, or ornamental hedges, it will answer 

 all such purposes, while, at the same time, it would yield 

 a most valuable crop. 



Let it be inquired, if it is a newly-heard-of thing, that 

 tea can be produced under some six cents per lb. ? or if 

 it be a fresh piece of information, having no other grounds 

 for its truthfulness than the well- arranged figures of esti- 

 mates ? 



EXPENSE OF CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE OF TEA 

 IN CHINA. 



IT is known that all China teas sell on an average for 

 20 cents per lb. at Canton, after crossing mountains and 

 valleys for 1,000 to 1,200 miles, and passing through 

 some six parties' hands, each making his profits ; and if 

 it be considered, that the tea that cost at Canton 20 cents 

 per lb., by the time it is retailed here averages 100 cents 

 per lb. it will be seen the price is enhanced five times. 

 Well, the transportation of tea from the districts in China 

 to Canton is more expensive than is its passage from 

 Canton to America, and it passes through on the China 

 side twice as many hands as it does on this side of Can- 

 ton ; therefore, if the price of production be only on the 

 other side of Canton enhanced in proportion as it has 

 been on this side, it would leave the cost of cultivating, 

 manufacturing, &c., at four cents per lb. 



