CHAPTER VIII 
TEA MAKING 
By S. E. CHANDLER, D.Sc., A.R.C.S., F.L.S. 
Member of the Staff of the Imperial Institute 
From beginning to end the tea industry is replete with 
matters of scientific interest. On the agricultural side 
the problems connected with soils, manuring, pruning 
and plucking—to make no mention of pests and diseases 
—have engaged the attention of specialists, with im- 
portant benefit to the industry; while, in regard to 
tea manufacture, the briefest consideration will show 
that the process must rest upon a biochemical basis 
which should afford an attractive and fruitful field 
for the scientific worker. Similarly, the purely economic 
aspect of the industry is of no less interest to the 
student than to the commercial man. The changes 
that have come over the tea trade during the last 
hundred years, both in regard to sources of supply 
and development of markets are among the romances 
of commerce ; _and at the present moment the rise of 
the tea industry in the Dutch East Indies is an 
important chapter in the act of being written. 
The tea industry, therefore, affords abundant material 
for discussion, and in planning a single lecture the diffi- 
culty is one of selection of topic. To botanists and 
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