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lators is all that is required to conduct the manufacturing pro- 

 cesses. This I recommend- 

 % Dated 27th August 1859, No. 762, re- e d in my + letter to Govern - 

 corded in Proceedings of Government, 



No. 1,272, dated 21st September 1859. ment, and I would beg 



again to solicit their at- 

 tention to the proposal. Enclosed is a letter on this subject 

 received by me from Dr. Jameson, at the time the question was 

 broached, also extracts from Sir Emerson Tennant's erudite work 

 on Ceylon, corroborative of the views expressed on this important 

 point. 



11. Much useful information will be obtained from Fortune's 

 works, especially his " Visit to the Tea Districts of China," 

 and "A short guide to Planters cultivating Teas in the Hima- 

 layas and Kohistan of the 

 $ Selection from the Records of the Go- -r> • -l >? v r» T nwinon « c 

 * vernment of India, No. XXIII, 1857. PuT1 J ab ' ^y Dr. Jameson.§ 



Intending Tea Planters 

 ought also to study carefully Mr. Ball's excellent work on the 

 " Cultivation and maufacture of Tea," and the " Theory of Horti- 

 culture" by Professor Lindley, a knowledge of the principles of 

 culture being indispensable to success. 



From W. Jameson, Esq., Superintendent Botanical Gardens, 

 North West Provinces, to H. Cleghorn, Esq., m. d., Con- 

 servator of Forests, Madras, dated Kowlangiri, Deyra Dhoon, 

 5th September 1859, No. 431. 



1 have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. 

 741, dated 6th ultimo, regarding Tea makers. I am glad to hear 

 that Tea cultivation is making steady progress in the Madras 

 Presidency. I have no Chinese Tea makers available to send to 

 the Nilgiris, but I can provide you with four excellent Native 

 Tea manipulators, who have been for years working in the facto- 

 ries and are nearly as expert at their work as the Chinese. To 

 several private factories, I have supplied Natives brought up as 

 Tea makers in the Government factories, and by them excellent 

 Teas have been prepared. Thus all the Teas prepared at Hurba- 

 wallah in the Deyra Dhoon estimated at lbs. 10,000 this season 



