An Account Of The Cultivation And Manufa

Excerpt from An Account of the Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea in China: Derived From Personal Observation During an Official Residence in That Country From 1804 to 1826; And Illustrated by the Best Authorities, Chinese as Well as EuropeanIN laying before the public the following pages on the Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea in China, I have been actuated by a hope of dispelling some of the prevalent errors and misconceptions with which this subject has hitherto been involved but mainly by a desire of supplying to the culti vator a desideratum, long and ineffectually sought, in aid of those attempts which are now in progress for the cultivation of the tea tree, on an extended scale, in British India, and other parts of the world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.