Such is my advice to intending beginners. To those who have gardens, I say, reduce your areas till of the size you can really cultivate them highly, and procure manure at any cost.
I shall not have written in vain, and Tea enterprise in India will flourish, if the motto of planters in future be—
“A full area, highly cultivated.”
[CHAPTER XXXI.]
PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF INDIAN TEA.
A few words on the past, the present, and the future of Indian Tea will now conclude this Essay, and will, I hope, be acceptable to the reader.
The subject is one of growing importance, but being a new one, there are points connected with it on which the public are very ignorant, and should be enlightened.
To begin with, the following facts are not disputed by those who know anything of the subject:—
1. Indian Teas have far more body, that is strength, than Chinese Teas.
2. Indian Teas consequently command a higher price at the London sales than Chinese Teas.