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down into the Throat ; but this ill Tafte 
quickly goes off. Thefe Kernels contain a 
great Quantity of Oil, and often turn rancid, 
which is the Reafon why fcarce two of a 
Dozen will germinate when fown 5 this 
probably may have fruftrated our Attempts 
in Europe to raife this Shrub, 
CHAP. II. 
Of the Culture , Growth , Gatherings and 
Sorting of Tea. 
T HE Natives of Japan do not allow 
the Tea Shrub any particular Gardens 
or Fields, but plant it round the Hedges and 
Borders of their other Fields, with regard 
to the Soil ; nor do they lay their Seeds in 
Rows, which would make it grow up into 
Hedges, but at fome Diftance from each 
other, that when the Shrub comes to fpread, 
the growing too clofe together may not hin- 
der the plucking off the Leaves. They put at 
lead; fix, but moftly twelve Seeds, as they are 
contained in their Seed Veflels, into one 
Hole, made five Inches deep, becaufe few 
are found to germinate out of that Number ; 
Sometimes two or three Shrubs come up to- 
gether 
