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consumption, occupying third place on the list. India 

 teas 52 per cent, China 30 per cent, Ceylon 18 per cent 



Showing relative positions of kinds of Tea con- 

 sumed in England, and increase in pounds of same since 

 1880:- 



Kind. 1880. 1885. 1890. 



China, . . . 126,000,000 113,500,000 60,000,000 

 India, . . . 34,000,000 65,500,000 95,000,000 

 Ceylon, ... ...... 3,000,000 24,000,000 



*n 1 868, when the price of tea was reduced in England 

 to an average of 36 cents per pound, the consumption 

 increased to the heretofore unprecedented figures of 

 107,000,000 pounds, while in 1888, when the average price 

 was again reduced to 20 cents, owing to the enormous 

 increase in the production of India and Ceylon teas, the 

 total consumption became augmented to 185,000,000 

 pounds, comprised as follows, in round numbers : 



Kinds. Pounds. 



China teas, ........... 80,000,000 



India and Ceylon teas ........ 105,000,000 



Total, 185,000,000 



The latter, for the first time on record, exceeding that 

 of China teas, being an almost exact inversion of the 

 figures of 1886 in favor of India and Ceylon teas, by which 

 it will be seen that China is year by year becoming of less 

 importance as a source of tea supply to English consum- 

 ers. And as the demand becomes greater the importations 

 from India and Ceylon are constantly expanding, prices 

 being correspondingly reduced to an unprecedentedly 

 low figure, being now so cheap in the United Kingdom 

 as to be in daily use in almost every household. The 



