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DESCRIPTION OF 



in large trays (Po Lam), and two, three, four, 

 or more men, are employed to toss them. Some 

 say that six or seven pounds (five catties), and 

 others eleven or thirteen pounds (eight or ten 

 catties), are thus formed into one heap even for 

 fine Souchong. 



The finest kinds of Yen or Pao Chong teas are 

 said to be placed in sieves in a long narrow close 

 room. Open shelves, made of bamboo, pass along 

 the walls, eighteen or twenty in height, upon which 

 sieves, or small trays, are placed. The leaves of 

 this tea being thinly strewed in the sieves, as al- 

 ready described in the process of Leang Ching, 



