| Show the culture of the tea plant th the e c climate 11 mate most congenial to the tea plant appears to lo be that between the twenty fifth and thirty th rd degrees of oe latitude on the asiatic coast that it will bear a in re severe range of climate is is shown by its culture in japan and the aimala himalaya y as that it will bear a greater heat beat its culau culture re in cochin china and Tonquin as an article of oe commerce and also IBS as a a gaiden bh rui ab in 9 and renan benani Pe nani where it is exposed to equatorial beat the r h e last experiment of ts cid culture ture lure fostered by the english government at himalayas Hima lalas lajas appears eminently successful at an agricultural fair held during the last season atlee at Jee darling eight I 1 samples or teas were offered in competition bom om different plantations which were pronouns uric unc d equal in quality ian witti the best 1 imported 1 teas the best evidence however of its success is in the fact that the private it ir vestment in its culture which had already reached rupees was increasing new nev plantations aaning been started the datch governments government however with the commercial shrewdness which characterizes that people have successfully introduced its ita culture in java the annual report of 1857 of the productions duct ions of oe hat that colony chows an export or growth of english pounds of tra tea and that the tea plantations contained tea shrubs giving employment to families these in snow show that tea plants can be readily accustomed to a w de ran range rane e of soil a and nd camal le that the secret of its culture and pre on cannot be hard 0 acquis tion llon when the javanese and Hirdo oa so sa rapidly acquire it the next question quest question lon ion is of profit and competition with low priced labor P I 1 would seem almost the rule in all low priced labor cotin coun ries rles that freights and transport are enormously high china is no excel ion lon on to this rule and the transport is farther with heavy local duties and charges as well as export duties at the port of shipment |
