August i, 1881.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 205 
high for extract, soluble salts fair, but theine low. 
In green tea we look for a high percentage of theine and 
can or.ly account for present result by the method of 
manufacturing, these two samples forming the average. 
We think you have every reason to feel satisfied 
with the result of analysing the 78 samples in your 
Court, and which fully confirms the high opiuion 
formed of your exhibits by Mr. Sibthorp and our- 
selves, and we leave you to judge of what the result 
•would have been if only the best samples had been 
selected and sent in for analyses. — We remain, your 
obedient servants, Jas. Henty & Co., per J. 0. Moody. 
Mr. Dunn's Analyses of Ceylon Tea. 
Industrial and Technological Museum Laboratory, 
Deer. 8th, 1880. 
Report on six samples of tea received from James 
Henty & Co. : — 
iff cent V cent of $cent 
Marks. Name. <fj" cent of ex- soluble of 
of ash. tracts, salts, theine. 
SI Orange Pekoe 4 -CO 41 '80 3-06 2-15 
82 Pekoe 4 -92 43-80 3 32 1-82 
83 Pekoe Souchong 5 04 42-80 3-12 1 86 
84 Souchong 4-84 40--10 320 1-84 
85 Congou 4 -SO 37-40 2 9G T82 
80 Green tea 4-72 44-00 9 60 0-04 
The high percentage of extract soluble salts and 
theine (with the exception of the'eon'ou and green 
tea) found by analysis, proves these teas to 'be of first- 
class quality. 
The low percentage of mineral ash (which is gener- 
ally between 5 and G per cent) may be accounted for 
(1) By the quick growth of the tea plant. (2) By 
the careful manner in which the leaves have been 
collected and sheltered from the dust, &c. 
A low percentage of mineral ash is detrimental to 
the quality of a tea when the soluble salts fall in 
percentage (that is below 3 per cent). 
It would prove of scientific interest if a larger num- 
ber of these teas were carefully analysed with especial 
reference to percentage of mineral ash. 
Frederic Dunn. 
Industrial and Technological Museum, Laboratory. 
29th October 1SS0. 
EtePORT on 15 Samples of Indian Teas received 
from James Henty & Co. 
Name. " ° S 
(5 | 
20 Dooars Pekoe Souchong... 5"20 
16 „ Bi-o. Pekoe Souchon/ 5'10 
11 Darjceling Pekoe ... 5-](> 
>« Souchong 
15 
17 
26 
10 Assa 
25 
1» 
27 
Ph o 
40-97 3 
36-11 3 
38 97 3 
41 80 3 
Souchong 
Pekoo Souchong 
Pekoe Souchong .. 
5-10 
28 Cachar Pekoe 
Souchong ... ,r,-20 3!) -27 
Bro. Souchong ... 5 60 39 40 
... 5 22 
Bro. Pekoe Souchong 6'36 
Pekoe Souchong ... 5-64 
■!.T\- 
40 66 
1D-29 
39 42 
3 00 
3-20 
3 '22 
3 '18 
3 24 
312 
.-{•Hi 
2!l 
22 „ Souchong ... 5-3?; 
Average of above ' I.', S ,ni|,l .. s 
Sui 1 ' ;e of 15 Samples Poo- ) 
Chow Congous obtained at I 5-20 29*26 2-SS 1 84 
I recent sale in Melbourne ) 
Thmo rWChow Teas a c below the standard of 
tho Adulteration Act of Great Britain. 
c ., (Signed) J. Cosmo Newbery. 
I'M 
C f- « 
N.B.— British Analysts' Standard 
of lowest class genuine Tea ... 5 to 8 30* 3-00 
Melbourne, 23rd Deer. 1880. 
Dear Mr. Bruce,— The fortnight has been taken 
"P largely m filling in and amending schedules and 
finally in sending specimens of teas and coffees to Mr. 
JSewbery's office, to be submitted to the proper jury 
I gladly availed myself of the proffered aid of Mr! 
Moody, of Messrs. Jas. Henty & Co., in choosing 
the samples, and he took good care that, especially 
in the case of the teas, such samples (4 oz. in each 
case called for) should be in the best, possible condi- 
tion. They were taken from the middU portions of 
carboys or packages, as the case might be. I desire 
to impress most strongly on the Colony I represent 
at this truly magnificent Exhibition a se ise of the 
eerv.ces rendered by the fi;m of Messrs J. Henty & 
Co., especially in bringing into favourable notice our 
young but most promising tea industry. Amongst 
other measures taken by them has been the distribu- 
tion of very considerable quantities of Ceylon tea 
which they bad purchased previously to my arrival 
and which Mr. Moody had satisfied himself was of a 
qu-ih'y certain to secure popular approval, which it has 
done. Many persons who complain of the good strong 
teas of India, as harsh, declare that Ceylon tea is the 
best they ever tasted. I have now commenced adding 
to the tea for distribution, and the attendants of a 
room in the Exhibition to which ladies resort, bavin" 
asked for and obtained some of our tea for the use of 
the ladies, have put up a notice to the effect that the 
tea is " Ceylon tea : the best in the world "! Yes- 
terday Mr. Leighton, the Commissioner for Queens- 
land, introduced a gentleman from the Darling Downs 
e said: "I never tasted better lea than 
eylon. _ I ha -e bad some pounds of it from 
wh 
that 
my : 
nholts. 
perties in Ceylon, and 
from the island. I only 
such tea as I required it 
ary statement, and such 
by unprejudiced consume 
tea growers for the persi 
of London tea-tasters. E 
lible, and the Mr. Brow 
somj significant words to t 
in the tea trade feel and 
beine troubled with comn 
who are interested in 
receive tin 
h I could ; 
This was a 1 
,ts 11 
s ought to console 
tently depreciatory 
en they may not 
rem irks 
be infal- 
such p aces as Ceylon, the question being satirically 
asked Are we to have tea from the Isle of Wight, 
next. The brokers and tea-tasters have the nvuket 
almost entirely in their hands, however, and tea growers 
in Ceylon and elsewhere must try to meet their'criteria 
of leaf and liquor. I have been so struck with the 
history of the Java tea trade with this market, that 
I requested Mr. Moody to favour me with a paper on 
this and other points of interest in the tea market of 
Melbourne, a market which supplies not only Victoria 
but other colonies, such as New Zealand. J fa p e to 
have Mr. Moody's paper to enclose, but meautime I 
may say that at the meeting summoned b\- Mr. Buck 
to discuss the question of iuereased communication 
between Australia and the East, the Dutch Consul 
General and Commissioner, Ploos van Ainstel, men- 
tioned to mo ns a discouraging circumstance, the entire 
collapse of the once extensive import trade in teas 
from Java to Melbourne Mr. Urown had previously 
told mo regarding that of Loudon. Java tea has fallen 
in estimation iu both, notwithstanding its perfect make 
