AN ACCOUNT 



OF THE 



CULTIVATION AMD MANUFACTURE 



OF 



TEA IN CHINA, 



CHAPTER I. 



DISCOVERY AND EARLY HISTORY OF THE TEA TREE IN CHINA 



INTRODUCTION AND GRADUAL IMPROVEMENTS OF THE PROCESSES 

 REQUIRED IN ITS MANIPULATION GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBU- 

 TION OF THE TREE IN CHINA ITS EXTENSIVE USE, AND 



MODE OF USING IT IN CHINA AT JAPAN VON SIEBOLD's 



OPINION, THAT THE TEA TREE WAS ORIGINALLY INTRODUCED 

 INTO CHINA FROM COREA, EXAMINED PROVED TO BE INDI- 

 GENOUS IDENTITY OF ASSAM TREE DOUBTFUL EXTENSIVE 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE CHINESE TREE. 



The origin of the use of tea, as collected from the 

 works of the Chinese, is traced to the fabulous 

 period of their history ; not, however, so much 

 from the vanity of assigning to it a high antiquity, 

 as to a kind of courtesy sanctioned by ancient 

 usage and oral tradition, which ascribes the dis- 



B 



