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There are two other scented teas, also of fine 

 flavour : both Souchong teas, the one scented with 

 the Quy-fa or Kuey-hoa (Olea fragrans) ; and the 

 other with the Moo-Ly-Hoa (Jasminum Sambac). 

 Some people say that these three last teas are mixed 

 with the flowers, as the Hyson tea is mixed with the 

 Chu Lan, and are scented in the same manner. But 

 others say that two sieves are placed in the Poey 

 Long, the lower one containing the flowers, and 

 the upper one the tea. The latter is the mode in 

 which the Pac Sheem tea, to which I have pre- 

 viously alluded, is scented. These are all the flowers 

 with which I am acquainted, which are employed 

 to scent tea ; but in the Keun Fang Pu and 

 Quang Tong dry (or Canton Geographical History) 

 many others are enumerated as eligible for that 

 purpose. These works also observe that flowers so 

 used should be full blown. 



BOHEA TEA. 



In the early part of the eighteenth century, the 

 word Bohea was applied in general society to all 

 black tea in contradistinction to Singlo or green 

 tea; as may be seen by our poets and dramatists of 

 that age. 



With merchants and dealers it has long since 

 been considered to mean the coarsest description 

 of tea imported into Europe. To the Chinese it 

 was known by the name of Ta Cha (large leaf tea), 



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