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CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE OF TEA. 



days, and the simplest mode of manufacture, will best 

 illustrate my meaning : 



So much for simplicity, and I affirm that no more than 

 the five operations detailed are necessary. I shall try to 

 show this further on. 



In studying Tea manufacture I first tried, in order to 

 get reliable data to go on, to ascertain the effect of each 

 and every operation, and not only that, but the effect on the 

 made Tea of each operation exaggerated and diminished. It 

 would be tedious, and of no use, to set out in detail all the 

 experiments I conducted, the results only I will try to give. 



I began at the beginning. Why wither at all ? I made 

 Tea (following out in each case all the other processes 

 detailed in the old plan) of ist, totally unwithered leaves ; 

 2nd, of leaves but little withered ; 3rd, of leaves medium- 

 withered ; and 4th, of leaves over-withered. 



I arrived at the following results : Unwithered or 

 under-withered leaves break in the rolling and give out 



