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CHAP. IX. 



GREEN TEA THE HYSON SHRUB IS THE SINGLO SHRUB IM- 

 PROVED BY CULTIVATION — GATHERING AND MANIPULATION 



ROASTING VESSELS DESCRIBED — MODE OF MANIPULATION 



OF HYSON TEA — COLOUR NOT FACTITIOUS MANIPULATION 



CONTINUED — ASSORTMENT OF LEAVES INTO GUNPOWDER, 

 HYSON, HYSON SKIN, AND 10UNG HYSON, BY SIFTING AND 

 WINNOWING TWANKAY TEA MODE OF MANIPULATION DE- 

 SCRIBED BY A CHINESE FACTITIOUS COLOURING OF GREEN 



TEA EXPERIMENTS TO DETERMINE ON WHAT THE PECULIAR 



COLOUR OF GREEN TEA DEPENDS. — FACTITIOUS COLOURING OF 



GREEN TEA, CONTINUED MR. WARINGTON's EXAMINATION OF 



THIS SUBJECT EXPERIMENTS WITH STEAM OBSERVATIONS 



ON THE USE OF MACHINERY AS ABRIDGEMENTS OF LABOUR. 



The green tea connected with the foreign markets 

 is grown in the southern part of the province of 

 Kiang Nan, in the district of Whey-chew-fu. The 

 Hyson tea is chiefly, if not entirely, brought from 

 the country in the immediate neighbourhood of 

 the two towns of Hieu Ning and Moo Yuen* ; 

 the former situated in lat. 29° 56', long. 118° 15' ; 

 and the latter in lat. 29° 12', long. 118° E. A 

 coarse kind of Singlo is also brought from the Hien, 

 or town of Tay Ping, situated in lat. 30° 15', 



* 



In Du Halde see Yew-ning and Yu-ywen. 



