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in the planting out season, any cessation should take 

 place in the rains, without judicious irrigation the newly 

 planted out young plants, will certainly die. And 

 I dwell at some length on this point, because in 

 the present condition of the Himalayas, where 

 scores, of amateurs, with little or no practical 

 experience of the work they are undertaking, 

 are commencing tea operations, it is one of the 

 most important for them to understand. Once 

 a tea plantation has been formed, and the plants 

 are all from three to five or six years old, they 

 may, to a very great extent, be considered safe; 

 and then, but not till then, can the planter in 

 Upper India, be considered independent of the 

 means of artificial irrigation. 



The report of Mr. Fortune on the occasion of his 

 second visit generally, however, was more favourable 

 than his first Of Bhurtpoor near Nainee Tal 

 he said, * the bushes are in excellent condition, 

 and fully justify the favourable opinion I formed of 

 the plantation on my first visit.' ' The bushes gener- 

 ally ' he remarked of the Kapeena and Luchmesar 

 plantations, ( Kamaon ) ' are in ^ood health, and for 

 many years past have been yielding large crops of 

 tea/ The Hawalbagh and Chullar plantations, 

 while he admitted that many portions were in a 

 most satisfactory condition, he thought capable of 

 being much improved. The Guddowli plantation 

 in Gurwahl, did not meet with his approval. 



