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siderable number of the Tea plants and the Tea nuts, with full ac- 

 counts of the methods observed. We remember well the 

 great zest with which this Tea plant was received among us. 

 Our garden journals were filled with details in relation to its 

 planting and success here. But this enthusiara, unfortunately, 

 did not last long — and in reference to it we found ourselves just 

 where our ancestors were at the time of Julius Caesar. The Tea 

 plants were soon left to die in the corners of some gardens, costly 

 as they had been — and we went on to drink the tea from China 

 as before. The fact is, Tea may be raised in portions of our cli- 

 mate, but the question of profit is another matter. We borrow 

 from the Gardeners' Chronicle of London, under the direction of 

 Mr. Lindley, the following observations. " The introduction of 

 tea culture into Northern India, is one of the greatest events in 

 tlie social history of this country. Independently of the com- 

 mercial advantages which will result from it, labor of production 

 and management will be a great source of profit and comfort to 

 the people." 



Fannen^ Club, Jan. It/t, 18&1. 

 Martin E. Thompson, Esq., in the chair. 

 H. Meigs, Esq., Secretary. 

 Subjects for discussion — The cuUivation of Tea ajid Madder. 



Mr. R. L. Pell, of Pellham, made the following remarks : 



Mr. Chairman — The result of my researches and observations, 

 in reference to tea, is, that this beverage, singular as it may ap- 

 pear, lias almost become a necessary of life, not only in the 

 British Islands, but throughout Europe and most of America; 

 notwithstanding it was scarcely used beyond the walls of China 

 previous to the middle of the seventeenth century. It is not 

 known by whom tea was first imported into Europe. In 1664 it 

 was so rare in England, that the East India company brought two 

 pounds and two ounces of it to the king as a present from Hol- 

 land. In 1666, Lord Arlington and Lord Ossory brought over 



