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WANDERINGS IN CHINA. 
Chap. XV. 
CHAPTER XV. 
Geography of the Tea-shrub — Best Tea Districts of China — Names 
of Tea-plants — Black and Green Tea made from the same variety 
— My Chinamen asked to make Tea from Pongamia glabra — 
They succeed! — Difference between Black and Green Tea de- 
pends upon manipulation — Method of making Green Tea — Of 
making Black — Difference in the manipulation of the two kinds 
— Mr. Warrington's Eemarks on this Subject — A familiar Illus- 
tration — The Tea-plant — Inferior Teas made from Thea hohea 
— Best Teas made from Thea viridis — The Woo-e-shan Variety 
— The Tea- plant affected by Climate and Eeproduction — Tea 
Cultivation in America and Australia — In English Gardens. 
The cultivation of the tea-shrub, although confined, 
until very lately, to the eastern parts of Asia, is carried 
on over a large tract of country. Thunberg informs us 
that it grows plentifully in Japan both in a wild and 
cultivated state, and Dr. Wallich says that it is found in 
Cochin China. I have met with it in cultivation in 
China, from Canton in the south up to the 31st degree 
of north latitude, and Mr. Reeves says it is found in the 
province of Shan-tung, near the city of Tang-chow-foo, 
in latitude 36° 30' north. 
The principal tea-districts of China, however, and 
those which supply the greater portion of the teas ex- 
ported to Europe and America, lie between the 25th 
and 31st degrees of north latitude, and the best districts 
are those between 27° and 31°. 
