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experience, and I can only hope that what I have written 

 will be found useful to an industry, destined yet, I believe, in 

 spite of the late panic the natural result of wild speculation 

 to play an important part in India. 



I have endeavoured to adapt this Essay to the wants of a 

 beginner, as there are many of that class now, and may yet 

 be more in days to come, who must feel, as I often have, the 

 want of a really practical work on Tea. 



To those who have Tea properties in unlikely climates and 

 unlikely sites, I would say two words. No view I have taken 

 of the advantages of different localities, can in any way affect 

 the results of enterprises already entered upon. But if the 

 note of warning, sounded in the following pages, checks 

 further losses in Tea, already so vast, while it fosters the 

 cultivation on remunerative sites, I shall not have written in 

 vain. 



EDWARD MONEY. 



SUNGOO RIVER PLANTATION, 

 CHITTAGONG : 



November 1870. 



