TEA BUSHES AT GODONG 
rather than is cultivated. Plantations, in the true sense of the 
word, do not exist—in some districts like Poncheng there are 
fair sized hills covered with tea, but for the most part the bushes 
exist but in small clearings on the hillsides, created by the 
farmers in their spare time ; pruning and fertilizing are practically 
unknown and many of the bushes are choked with weeds. 
Very few 
of the factory 
owners have 
any share or 
apparent inter- 
est in the tea 
grounds. The 
method of fi- 
nancing and 
collecting the 
tea is as fol- 
lows: Early in 
the Spring, the 
Tea Broker 
Hongs work- 
THE BUYING DEPOT AT KEEMUN VILLAGE 
