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CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE OF TEA. 



mode of manufacture now will best illustrate my mean- 

 ing : 



So much for simplicity, and I affirm that no more than 

 the five operations detailed . are necessary. I shall try to 

 show this further on. 



In studying Tea manufacture I first tried, in order to get 

 reliable data to go on, to ascertain the effect of each and 

 every operation, and not only that, but the effect on the made 

 Tea of each operation exaggerated and diminished. It would 

 be tedious, and of no use, to set out in detail all the experi- 

 ments I conducted, the results only I will try to give. 



I began at the beginning. Why wither at all ? I made 

 Tea (following out in each case all the other processes 

 detailed in the old plan) of 1st, totally unwithered leaves; 

 2nd, of leaves but little withered ; 3rd, of leaves medium- 

 withered ; and 4th, of leaves over-withered. 



I arrived at the following results : Unwithered or under- 

 withered leaves break in the rolling and give out large 



