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AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 



Its needs in this respect are quite different from those of the grape- 

 vine, to which dry heat is especially advantageous, so that a suc- 

 cessful cultivation of the one excludes the other, so to speak. 



A. — Table of the areas devoted to tea-growing 

 IN Japan, in i88i. 



B. — Analyses of Tea. 

 By A. W. Blythe : • 



Water. Theine. Extract. 



Hyson 6-61 r6o 36-95 

 Japan 4-69 1-38 39-41 



Gum. 



7-25 

 10-29 



A^^es. ^^^l Potash.^^^^- 



6-85 

 6-56 



3-37 

 3-21 



1-53 

 1-41 



0-52 

 079 



Nitrog. 

 Matter. 



Green Chinese Tea according to Hassall : 



Water. Theine. ^^J^Tpaf ^^^^^ tannin. 



24-39 9-37 2-79 1-83 5-89 18-69 



Fibre. 

 31-66 



Ashes. 



5-38 



Stonehouse according to the "Annalcn der Chemie u. Pharmacie, 

 vol. 45, p. 336, found the proportion of the"ine as follows : 



Huasan. Congo. Black Assam. Green Twankay. 



1-09 1-02 1-37 0-98 



