ASSORTMENT OF LEAVES INTO HYSON TEA. 225 



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that quality called 

 Hyson skin. It was 

 then packed, and 

 formed what in the 

 tea country would 

 have corresponded 

 with the best kind of 

 young Hyson. The 

 skin fanned off in this 

 last process was of a superior kind to the former, 

 the leaf being better twisted. The flat and coarse 

 leaves were therefore picked out by hand, and the 

 residue formed an inferior kind of young Hyson. 



During the above process of sifting and roasting 

 the young Hyson, other men were employed in 

 winnowing the remaining leaves to separate the 

 skin from the Hyson. It is here necessary to ob- 

 serve that only the light, flat, chafly leaves are 

 fanned off in this process, so that the round knobby 

 leaves, the yellow twisted 4 leaves, and the coarse 

 leaves, still remain mixed with the Hyson. The 

 whole of the remaining leaves were therefore all 



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