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The common tea is kept in cartlicn pots with narrow 

 moutlis ; but the bc-ft forts, ufed by the emperor and nobi- 

 lity, is put into porcelain or china veffels. The coarfell tea 

 is kept by the country people in draw badicts, made in the 

 (liape of barrels, which they place under the roofs of 

 tlieir houfes, near tlie hole that lets out the fmoke. 



Method of Culture Thefe plants may be raifed in this 



country by feeds, layers, and cuttings of the young branches. 

 The editor of Miller's Dictionary advifes that the feeds 

 (hould be procured from China, and that care (hould be 

 taken that they be frefli, found, ripe, white, plump, and 

 moill internally. After being well dried in the fun, they 

 may be inclofed in bees-wax, or, left in their cap- 

 fules, they may be put into very clofe canifters of tin or 

 tutenague. Thouin, in his direftions to Peroufe, it is faid, 

 recommends thefe and other feeds to be placed in alternate 

 layers of earth or fand, in tin boxes, clofed up exaftly, and 

 placed in fohd cafes, covered with waxed cloth ; the boxes 

 to be placed in a part of the fliip the leaft acceffible to 

 moifture, and the mofl (heltered from extreme heat or 

 cold. And Mr. Sneyd, it is added, was very fuccefsful 

 in having feeds packed up in abforbent paper, and fur- 

 rounded by raifins or moift fugar, which kept them in 

 a ftate fit for vegetation. American feeds are frequently 

 brought over, by puttingthem into a box, not made too clofe, 

 upon alternate layers of mofs, in fuch a manner as to admit 

 the feeds to vegetate. This might be tried with the feeds 

 of the tea-tree ; and to fucceed more certainly, fome of the feeds 

 might be fown in pots or boxes, when the veffel arrives at 

 St. Helena, and after paffing the tropic of Cancer, near the 

 latitude of thirty degrees north. But the beft method 

 feems to be, to fow ripe feeds in good light earth in boxes, 

 at leaving Canton, covering them with wire, to prevent rats 

 and other vermin from getting to them ; and taking care 

 that the boxes be not expofed to too much air, nor to the 

 fpray of the fea. A little frefh or rain-water fhould be 

 fprinkled over them now and then ; and when the feedling 

 plants appear, they fhould be kept moift and out of the 

 biu-ning fun. If young plants can be procured in China, 

 they may be fent over in a growing ftate in boxes, forty 

 inches long by twenty broad, and as m\ich in depth, having 

 a few holes bored through the bottom. When the trees ar- 

 rive here, they muft be kept in a greenhoufe during the win- 

 ter, and in the open air during the fummer ; and if they 

 come in bad condition, it may not be amifs to plunge the 

 pots into which they are tranfplanted in a gentle hot-bed, or 

 to fet them in a tan-pit, to make them ftrike and ftioot more 

 freely. It is further remarked, that though the tea-tree 

 will not at prefent bear the rigour of OMr winters in the 

 open air, yet it is not impoffible but it may gradually be- 

 come naturahzed to our climate, like the magnolia, among 

 feveral other trees and ftirubs ; efpecially if it were to be 

 brought from the coldeft provinces of China, where it 

 grows, or from the parts of Europe a little to the fouth- 

 ward of us, when it has been naturalized there. It is in- 

 creafed freely from cuttings, when managed in the fame 

 manner as gardenias : and it alfo fometimes grows from 

 layers laid down in the autumn or fpring. 



Some of thefe plants ftiould be always kept in pots, to be 

 removed under the (belter either of a greenhoufe, glafs cafe, 

 or deep garden frame, in winter ; and others be planted in 

 a dry, well-fheltered, warm, confpicuous pait of the ftirub- 

 bery, to be afforded occafional covering from rigorous 

 frofts. 



They afford variety in greenhoufe colleaions, as well as 

 in the fhrubberies. 



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Although in this country, plants of this kind are only cul- 

 tivated for the purpofe of curiofity, variety, and diverfity 

 among greenhoufe and other coUeftions, in fmaU quantities ; 

 in China, where tl\ey are natives, they are raifed in vail abun- 

 dance in plantations of very great extent for their leaves, 

 which form a great and valuable article of merchandize to 

 tliat country for thefupplyof England and moft other parts 

 of Europe, they being employed, in their different prepared 

 ftates, for the making of an infufion with boiling water, 

 which is called tea, and which is very generally in ufe, efpe- 

 cially in this and fome other countries. For other particu- 

 lai-s, fee Tea. 



THEAK, in Rural Economy, a word provincially ufed 

 to fignify thatch. 



THEAKIKI, in Geography, a river of North America, 

 which runs into lake Illinois, N. lat. 40° 52'. W. long. 

 89° 15'. 



THEAME, in /indent Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 Babylonia, on the confines of Arabia Defcrta. Ptol. 



THEANDRIC, SsavSpix.o?, del-'ulrilc ; a term lignify- 

 ing divine and human, formed from Qro,-, God, and ainp, 

 tnan. 



St. Dionyfais, bifhop of Athens, firft ufed the word 

 iheandric, to exprefs a double operation, or two operations 

 united in Jefus Chrift ; the one divine, the other human. 

 The Monophyfites afterwards abufed it, to fignify the one 

 only operation which they admitted in Jefus Chrift ; in whom 

 they believed there was a mixture of the divine and human 

 nature, whence refulted a third nature, which was a com- 

 pound of the one and the other, whofe operations followed 

 the eflence and qualities of the mixture, and were neither 

 divine nor human, both at once, or, in one word, theandrlc. 



Bmv}^iy.n mfyua, theandrlc, or dei-virile operation, in the 

 fenfe of Dionyfius and Damafcenus, is thus exemphfied by 

 Athanafius. When Chrift healed the perfon who was born 

 blind, the fpittle he voided was human, but the opening of 

 the eyes was done by his divine power. And thus, in raif- 

 ing Lazarus, he called as man, but awaked him from the 

 dead as God. 



The term theandric, and the dogma of theandric opera- 

 tions, were examined with great care and attention, at the 

 council of Lateran, held in 649, where pope Martin (olidly 

 refuted the notion of theandric operations, and fhewed, that 

 the fenfe in which St. Dionyfius firft ufed the word was Ca- 

 tliolic, and quite remote from that of the Monophyfites and 

 Monothelites. 



THEANGELA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia 

 Muior, in Caria. 



THEANO, or Teano, in Geography, a town of Italy, 

 in the kingdom of Naples, and province of Lavora ; the 

 fee of a bifhop, fuffragan of Capua ; 15 miles N. of Capua. 



THEANTHROPOS, QEav6pi;:rc;, formed from 0.0;, 

 God, and avO^it^s;-, man, denominated God-man ; a term fome- 

 times ufed in the fchools to fignify Jefus Chrift, who was 

 regarded as God-man ; or reprefented by fome fcholaftic 

 theological writers, as comprehending two natures in one 

 perfon. 



THEANUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Italy, 

 in Campania, upon the Latin way, S.E. of Cafinum. See 

 Thean'O. — Alfo, a river of Italy. 



THEATER, or Theatre, Thealrum, formed from 

 ^ici.T^'v, fpedacle, of Seaoj^ai, / fee, among the Ancients, a 

 pubhc edifice, for the exhibition of fcenic fpeftacles or fhows 

 to the people. 



Under the word theater was comprehended, not only the 

 eminence on which the aflors appeared, and the aclion 



paffed, 



