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green Tea 
THEA ViRiDjg 
|-F there were no value in this Shrub, as Tea, its beauty is f,.«: ■ 
I to our not.ce ; and I a.n in no doubt, but a few yearl ^ ‘■‘=‘^°mmend it 
Mions. We ad.nirc the double bloffom’d Cherry and fom col- 
rcfemble thofe which coyer the Green Tea Shrub, but tl.evVr' ° r • ^'°«'er3 
nefs can excel that which we fee in them ; and their dihir! 'vhite. 
loofecluilers upon the fummits of the tendereft branches Jy" Th 
lar beauty. ’ «« whole Plant a fingu. 
Why I haye call’d this the Green Tea has b f 'd ' 
haps it is an error , but there is an appearance of -tP'" = 
and the afped differs from that of the more dufky Planr , ^ 5 
various parcels of Tea, Flowers with fix, and otherV witir“‘^'"p in 
whether they belong’d to the fame Species, or to two d.ftin"r 
fhewed the fame variety of Flowers, and Ihewed them ,rr ' ^ Pp^^mens 
were alfo different : the eye here feems to h vel Z whofe Leaves 
W- judgment : and in bis latefi worh that ^ 
growth : and they have "wnf orher^pafttuTarbi^s'm^ P"!"* 
tance. But tho’ the accounts of thefe led Europ ^i° °P Puch impor- 
due’dboth; they did not fairly ind^e thafoni r P- 
is gather’d at one period of growth • and G ^ ■ ■’u true, that Bohea Tea 
alfo that they are feparate Shrubs which proTuce ^"Thef 
make fame difference if thev were th^ t cl V gathering would 
prove that they are fo ■ nor Is a v r "/rl ' ^ -t 
. _ y . nor has any writer of fuffic.ent accuracy for the obfervation faid 
like that of the fineft C ’ L “V 
or cue hneft Green Tea, but more delicate. 
ir is anlr"”' brought over into Europe do not grow ; for 
Japan thar''^^*™!, Koimpfer, who had feen the culture of the Shrub in 
'Iro pknt for ^7" ^ fucceeded when they were fown for raifing 
rancid, h ”\-i r this to an oily matter in them, which grows quickly 
’’’ice • but d B l' r folution may be, I fhall not take upon me to deter- 
i*lf. "that itT’r^* ** owing to fome change wrought in the fubflance of the Seed 
fo lonn , " ° ^P*^ P^'P PP “uy flrirrg oan prevent this, and prefervc it during 
on, a voyage, probably it wdll be now found. 4 
Thea florlbus enncapculij. 
