Chap. XVI. THE TEA-PLANT IN ENGLAND. 



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Those persons in England who possess tea-plants, 

 and who cultivate them for pleasure, should always 

 bear in mind that, even in the tea-districts of China, 

 this shrub will not succeed when planted in low wet 

 land : and this is doubtless one of the reasons why so 

 few persons succeed in growing it in this country. It 

 ought always to be planted on a warm sloping bank, 

 in order to give it a fair chance of success. If some 

 of the warm spots of this kind in the south of Eng- 

 land or Ireland were selected, who knows but our 

 cottagers might be able to grow their own tea? at 

 all events they might have the fragrant herb to look 

 upon. 



