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Peking and into Tartary ; but the bulk of the 

 green tea made with care in the district of Whey- 

 chew-fu is intended for foreign consumption. So 

 if any particular species or variety found there 

 be necessary or advantageous for the manufacture 

 of green tea, it must then be conceded that this 

 species differs from all others in China ; or, that in 

 other parts of the Empire it is made into black 

 tea, or, indifferently, into black and green. # But 

 who can affirm whether all the different kinds — 

 species, or varieties — here alluded to, may not be 

 common both to the black and green tea countries ; 

 and to the several districts in each, or even on 

 each farm ; and that all these differences are for 



* The Lo-gan tea, which is extensively used in the vicinity 

 of Macao in the province of Quong Tong, is a black tea grown 

 in that part of the province of Kiang Nan now called Ngan 

 Goey. It is packed and sold in small baskets containing about 

 l;j lb. of tea. The Jesuit missionaries say, that they compared 

 this shrub with the tea grown in the district of Whey-chew-fu, 

 and did not find that it differed from that plant. I think it 

 proper to draw the reader's attention to this observation, though 

 I do not attach much importance to it myself, because, to deter- 

 mine whether there be any botanical difference between these 

 two shrubs, the one employed in the manipulation of black tea 

 and the other of green, they must be examined by a botanist. 

 To those who were acquainted with the little plantation reared 

 by me on the Lapa, but now I understand altogether 

 neglected, it may be useful to remark that the shrubs grown on 

 the little raised embankment on the left hand side of the planta- 

 tion, were said to be Lo-gan plants. They were remarkable 

 for their upright stems and large and coarse leaves. It has 

 before been remarked that these shrubs were manured, to which 

 their luxuriance of growth appeared to be mainly due. 



