44 Blights and Tea Pests. 
den will have to be cut heavily, This may be 
worth trying where the flush is entirely Banghy, 
but every shoot that shows ought to be left to 
run, If the little leaf that grows ia November 
can be ealled a flush, there are seven flushes in the 
year, in the Darjeeling district. Although a 
few gardens at high elevations may lose one 
flush, through want of sun, either in August or 
September. Up to the beginning of September 
a coolie ought to pick 20 Ibs. leaf a day, if the 
flushes are not blighted badly, but after then the 
plucking tiecas will have to be reduced as the 
leaf will get much lighter. 
CHAPTER VI. 
BLIGHTS, AND TEA PESTS. 
Every year the amount of different insects 
which attack tea, seems to be increasing. Some 
12 years ago, the Darjeeling district scarcely 
suffered from blight at all, and now many gar- 
dens are most seriously affected, The three 
