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We believe that the United States can and will grow a thousand 

 millions of pounds too ! and we now know that the error will 

 vanish as to the gathering of this crop. Light moveable seats 

 adapted to young and old persons, are used in the tea liMi'vest so 

 that the pickers are as much at ease as in parlors while the3^ 

 pick. The buds forming Imperial tea are as large as small rose 

 buds, and yet a child can pick a pound of them nearly as quick 

 as -it could strawberries, and when it comes to picking the leaves 

 at the various stages of their growth, the picker takes a branch 

 and strips all the leaves off at one pull. A hand can pick a 

 greater Aveight of tea leaves than of cotton in a day. And it is 

 not true that it is necessary to use them as we have them with 

 Prussian blue or other drug to give them bloom, etc. The Chinese 

 use them in the natural way. There is no need for rolling them 

 up after their acrid principle has been removed by heat and 

 manipulation. It is_ only necessary as soon as possible to have 

 the leaves packed so as to exclude air. 



Mr. Smith examined the several states, and concluded that tea 

 would flourish from the Gulf of Mexico to latitude 40° North — 

 that is in about fourteen states — especially in soils containing 

 limestone and gravel. He thought the upper lands of South 

 Carolina were particularly favorable, from lat. 32'^ to 35"^. The 

 uplands of Georgia were approved by him. He especially recom- 

 mended Arkansas as well suited for tea growing. Low flat 

 lands must always be avoided. 



The Celestial Empire hates us ! It will probably not let us 

 have any more tea, and if she does I should like to have a taster 

 for ever box of tea, before I go to tea ! But at any rate it is too 

 poor an apology for a run round the globe to get a dish of tea 

 when it can not only be raised here for our own dwnking, but 

 we may supply one or two hundreds of millions of our friends 

 with tea in northern Europe as well as with cotton ! And we 

 can fortunately obtain all the plants to begin with from Brazil. 



[Journal De La Societe Imperiale et Centrale D'Horticulture, Napoleon 3d, Pro- 



tecteur.] 



We translate the following extracts, viz : 



At the meeting on the 11th of December last, Messrs. Pelvain 

 and Brailly of Pont-Audemer, placed on the table two large cab- 

 bages which were examined by the committee. They are the 

 apple or quintal cabbage of Alsace. They are called quintal 

 (hundred pounds) cabbage on account of their enormous weight, 

 w^hich some of them have gained, that is fifty kilogrammes — about 



