applicable to other districts, but I have preferred for the moment to 

 speak more specially of those parts of the Indian Tea area which 

 I know best, leaving to a future date, after a separate and care- 

 ful examination of the soils of other sections, the presentation of 

 special reports on those districts. 



On these lines I have divided the consideration of the subject 

 into chapters as follows : 



(1) Physical properties of Assam Tea soils. 



(2) Chemical characteristics of Assam Tea soils in relation 



(.3) to luxuriance of bushes. 

 (b) to quality of tea, 



(3) Manures available and their utility for producing 



(a) quantity of tea. 



(b) quality of tea. 



(4) Notes on the Tea soil of each district of Assam and its 



improvement. 



