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To the ingenious Kempfer we are principally indebted for 
any accurate information ref{pecting the culture of the Tea Tree ; 
and, as his account was compofed during his refidence at Japan, 
greater credit is certainly due to it. We fhall give what he 
fays upon this fubject, and then ftate the accounts we have 
been able to collect of the Chinefe method. 7 
Kempfer tells us, that no particular gardens or fields are 
allotted for this plant, but that it is cultivated round the borders 
of rice and corn fields, without any regard to the foil. Any 
number of the feeds, as they are contained in their feed veffels, 
not ufually lefs than fix, or exceeding twelve or fifteen, are 
promifcuoufly put into one hole, made four or five inches deep: 
in the ground, at certain diftances from each other. ‘The feeds 
contain a large proportion of oil, which is foon liable to turn 
rancid; hence fcarce a fifth part of them germinate, and this 
makes it neceflary to plant fo many together. 
The feeds vegetate without any other care; but the more 
induftrious annually remove the weeds, and manure the land. 
The leaves which fucceed are not fit to be plucked before the 
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