40 Plucking. 
flush after the blight has left longer, and do. 
not pluck hard at once; as if the tree is not 
treated too severely and given time to recover, it 
will make up for the former loss of leaf during 
remaining months of the year. When the garden 
is attacked by green fly very pretty teas ought to 
be made, and “a fair flavour can be got. Pluck 
the little hard shoots as soon as possible and do 
not be put out because the coolies only bring 
in 4 or 5 Ibs. leaf. The tea ought to make 
up in price for the loss in quantity, if there is a 
lows.” In the Hills, Assam and Hybrid bushes 
have to be treated much more tenderly than 
China plant. With Assam plant do not trouble 
to thin out, and let the bushes havea very easy 
time of it at the beginning of the year. 
Many planters advocate picking half the 3rd 
or Pekoe Souchong leaf, and say the flush comes 
on sharper if this is done, It may be so in 
the plains, but it is not the.case up here, as 
it has been tried repeatedly ; in one case this 
year on alternate lines of bushes, and the trees 
from which the extra half leaf was taken did 
