[29] By “best class” I mean the most indigenous class.
[30] Mind again this be of the same nature as the garden soil.
[31] The baskets are too frail; being often wetted, they fall to pieces before the planting time.
[32] It may be that the transplanting and transporting tools invented by Mr. Jeben (see page [79]) will solve the difficulty of filling up vacancies.
[33] Where new gardens are made on rich virgin soil, to manure them at all for the first few years is, I think, unnecessary. But the richest soils on Tea gardens get exhausted in time, and manure should be applied before this point is arrived at.
[34] See foot-note, page [86], which shows that for 18 months after transplanting, young bushes should not be pruned or picked at all.
[35] I mean manufactured Tea. The infusion is called liquor.
[36] In describing manufacture I shall call the leaf brought in “Leaf,” until it enters on the rolling process; from that time until the drying over charcoal is concluded, “Roll;” and after that, “Tea.”
[37] Pekoe tips are the whitish or orange-coloured ends that may be seen in Pekoe Tea. See pages [105], [106], and [116].
[38] The out-turn consists of the Tea leaves after infusion.