XIV PREFACE. 



own experience, and I can only hope that what I have 

 written will be found useful to an industry destined yet, I 

 believe, in spite of the late panic the natural result of wild 

 speculation to play an important part in India. 



I have endeavoured to adapt this Essay to the wants of 

 a beginner, as there are many of that class now, and may 

 yet be more in days to come, who must feel, as I often have, 

 the want of a really practical work on Tea. 



To those w^ho have Tea properties in unlikely climates 

 and unlikely sites, I would say two words. No view I have 

 taken of the advantages of different localities can in any way 

 affect the results of enterprises already entered upon. But 

 if the note of warning, sounded in the following pages, 

 checks further losses in Tea, already so vast, while it fosters 

 the cultivation on remunerative sites, I shall not have written 

 in vain. 



EDWARD MONEY. 



SUNGOO RIVER PLANTATION, 

 CHITTAGONG, 



November, 1870. 



