tea cultivation. Three years later he thus reports 

 on the plantation at Kaolegir : 



"I have great pleasure in stating that I have 

 never seen finer or more productive Plantations in 

 China. The plants are in high health, large, and 

 bushy, and are yielding annually abundant crops 

 of leaves. Many of the bushes are five and six feet 

 in diameter. One I measured was eight feet, another 

 ten, and both six feet in height. Of course these 

 are the giants of the Plantation. And it is to be 

 noted that these plants are not "drawn up" with few 

 branches and leaves; but they are dense bushes in 

 high health, and formed to give large quantities of 

 Tea." 



Mr. Fortune on this occasion made no allusion 

 to the flatness of the soil, the system vi irrigation, the 

 over plucking, or the hot winds, but somewhat 

 naively attributed the altered appearance of the 

 plantation to the system of cultivation having been 

 changed in accordance with the suggestions made in 

 his first report. Dr. Jameson, however, denied that 

 any change whatever had been made in the system, 

 and attributed the improved condition of the plan- 

 tation, to good cultivation, good manuring, and to 

 a part of his system which Mr. Fortune had condemned 

 viz., partial irrigation. And in support of his position 

 he advanced the following convincing proof, that the 

 year previous, the highly cultivated land yielded 



