Show TEA irom FROM THE FLOWERS this product little known in the united states tea not from leaves but from the flowers alone of the plant is rarely en countered in commerce the petals stamens etc are sun dried and the resulting tea Is of a rich deep brown bromn hue of peculiarly delicate odor and gives a pale amber colored infusion rather more astringent in taste than that from the average fair grade leaf the taste for it is an acquired one and even if this tea could be made commercially possible it Is doubtful it if it would ever become popular the american tea trade could ad take a suggestion from the brick tea of the tar far east in our country the tea dust some of which Is good quality is not properly utilized in europe it Is a regular article of trade and it Is advertised and sold as tea dust in america it la Is sold to thousands of cheap i ants who ho make from it the mixture of banic acid sugar and boiled milk which they sell as tea if as in the orient this dust was compressed into bricks good tea could be made from it the impression given at the latest exposition in berlin of invention la Is that liquid air will soon enter the field as a very serious competitor of steam and electric power |