TEA CULTIVATION. 

 ITS RISE, PROGRESS, AND FUTURE PROSPECTS IN INDIA. 



CHAPTER I. 

 China Assam. 



There is no feature in the development of the 

 resources of this great peninsula, of which the 

 Government of India have a right to feel more 

 justly proud, than the successful cultivation of the 

 TEA PLANT. From whatever point, external or 

 internal we view the results obtained, they are 

 pregnant with promise. We cannot shut our eyes 

 to the fact, that France is gradually but steadily 

 creeping towards the frontiers of the great tea 

 garden of the world from the South West. Russia, 

 it is equally well known, has complete command 

 of her opposite frontier, and has long since ob- 

 tained an influence in the interior, the limits of 

 which it is not easy to define. The Empire itself 



