78 William Jameson on the Cultivation of 
Here snow falls annually during the months of December 
and January, and lies for some length of time. The tea al- 
ready prepared, the produce of leaves of the Nagrota and 
Bowarnah nuseries, is very highly flavoured ; and as the alti- 
tude of these places is much below Holta, I doubt not but 
that this plantation will produce teas of a very superior de- 
scription. The Chinese tea manufacturers, now employed 
there, state that the leaves grown in the Kohistan of the 
Punjaub, are superior to the produce of Kumaon and Gurwal 
for manufacturing teas ; and they speak from experience, as 
they have been working in both places. With their opinion 
I coincide, and attribute the advantages to the heavy falls of 
snow and rain which annually take place in the cold weather 
in the Kohistan. In China, in the northern districts, where 
snow continually falls in the cold weather, the teas are found 
to possess the highest aroma, and, probably, the same will be 
found to be the case with the Punjaub teas, and they will thus 
command the greatest sale and highest prices. But before 
this can ever be realized, it will be necessary to procure first- 
rate tea manufacturers, as the men there located, though 
good workmen, are not first-rate. One of the sets, there- 
fore, now being imported, under Mr Fortune, from China, 
might with advantage be sent to Holta. 
Future prospects —At Holta, about 100,000 young plants 
have been transplanted, and a ton and a half of seeds sown, 
twenty-five maunds of which were the produce of the valley, 
and the remainder imported from Kaolageer and Kumaon. 
From these there will be a vast return of young plants; and 
in a short time, I trust, to be able to plant the whole of the 
land, amounting to about five hundred acres, taken in for the 
tea plantation. 
At the present moment, the great crops in the Kinin 
valley are rice, wheat, barley, and sugar; a third of which 
is exported to the plains. But the time is not far distant, 
when the canals, now in progress in the Punjaub, are opened, 
for us to expect that this market will be closed, or rather, 
that the cultivators will not be able to grow grain at a suffi- 
ciently low rate in the Kohistan, to compete with the pro- 
duce of the plains. At the present moment. two-fifths of — 
