CHAPTER XV. Some advice to the reader Botany of the black-tea country Geological features - Soil Sites of tea-farms- - Rainy season Cultivation and management of tea-plantations -- Size of farms-Mode of packing - - Chop names Temperature- Route from Distances the tea-country to the coast-Method of transport Time occupied Original cost of tea in the tea-country -- His opinion on Page 253 CHAPTER XVI. Geography of the tea-shrub - Best tea districts of China - Names of CHAPTER XVII Inn at Pouching-hien - Opium-smokers and gamblers-Value of life 288 L CHAPTER XVIII. - A celebrated Buddhist temple-Scenery around it Its trees and shrubs - Buddhist worship-Leave the temple-Reflections on - - - - - CHAPTER XIX. - Tea-plants, &c., taken to Hong-kong-Shipped for India - I sail - - - - - Safe arrival of tea-plants in India - Means taken in China to engage CHAPTER XXI. Experiments with tea-seeds - Best method of sending them to distant CHAPTER XXII. - - Ordered to inspect the tea-plantations in India-Deyra Doon planta- - 368 C LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 1. View in the Green Tea Country Frontispiece to face page 1 2. Engraved Title-page. 3. Map 4. Curious mode of gathering the Ling near Kea-hing-foo 5. Palm-tree (Chamaerops excelsa ?) 6. Funereal Cypress 7. Relic-Cage 8. Buddha's Tooth 9. Crystal Vase 12. Mode of carrying the finest Tea across the Bohea moun 15. Chinese Bird's-eye View of the "Stream of Nine Windings and strange Rocks 16. Ancient Inscription 17. Old Stone at Poo-too |