The Tea-plant of China.--The Species found in the Green and Black
Tea Districts--Best Situation for Tea Plantations.--Remarks on their
Management.--Seasons, and Method, of gathering the Leaves.--Manufacture
of Tea.--Cottages amongst the Tea Hills.--Furnaces and Drying
Pans.--First Application of Heat.--Rolling Process.--Exposure of the
Leaves to the Air.--Second Heating.--Length of Time required.--Two
kinds of Tea.--Difference in the Manufacture of each.--Selecting
and packing Teas.--Appearance and Colour of the Leaf.--Peculiar
Taste of Foreigners for Dyed Teas.--Good Sense of the Chinese.--Tea
Merchants.--Their Visits to the Tea Hills.--Mode of buying from the
small Growers.--Black Tea District in Fokien.--Teas divided into two
Kinds.--Peculiar Method of preparing each.--Cause of their difference
in Colour.--Flowers used in scenting the finer Teas.--Sir John Francis
Davis's Remarks on different kinds of Teas sold at Canton.