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the superior black Teas sent to them as presents, and better for the 

 most part, than China Teas imported for mercantile purposes. 



Such is the most conclusive evidence afforded by this second East 

 India experiment in proof of the practicability of growing the Tea 

 Plant, in districts out of China. But in reference to the last ex- 

 periment, it may be doubted whether a Botanical garden, however 

 able the Professor presiding over its interests may be, is exactly the 

 place for such an experiment. A gentleman who has all the exot- 

 ics thit can be collected, from the four quarters of the world, under 

 his charge, can scarcely be said to occupy a position that would 

 best qualify him to superintend the cultivation of the Tea Plant 

 upon a national scale. By directing his attention to a great vari- 

 ety of agreeable objects, and spreading his paternal care over so 

 large a family, he in some measure disqualifies himself for that con- 

 stant, minute, and practical attention to the Plant, which, especially 

 when under experiment, it demands at his hands. Such an enter- 

 prise requires the infusion of a little Tea-leaf enthusiasm — a devo- 

 tion to the one great object in hand; an attachment to cultivation 

 and horticultural pursuits for the love of them; an untired patience 

 and ardent zeal in communicating instruction to others, upon the 

 subject most immediately in hand, rather than upon the general sci- 

 ence of Botany; particulars which can hardly be expected from a 

 professed Botanist, and therefore we think the Editor of the Colo- 

 nial Magazine may dismiss his surprise that so little progress was 

 made at the commencement of the experiment, but rather congratu- 

 late the company that, under such circumstances, the experiment 

 succeeded at all. 



NO. V. 



Adaptation of the United States to the culture of the Tea Plant — Position of thbsc 

 parts of the United States lyinp; parallel with the Tea fTrowinjT districts of 

 China, — Delaware — Maryland — Virginia — North Carolina — South Carolina- 

 Georgia — Florida — Alabama — Mississippi — Louisiana — Arkansas — Missoari 

 — Texas — Tennesee — Kentucky, — character of the population — Conclusion. 



Having, as we trust, satisfactorily established the proposition by 

 the evidence of repeated experiments in various and widely separa- 

 ted portions of the Globe, that there is nothing so peculiar in the 

 climate, soil, and cultivation of Tea in China, as to confer upon or 

 entitle her to exclusive privileges, or restrain other nations froia par- 



