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THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF WHICH SECURED THE PRIZE OF THE GRANT GOLD MEDAL AND Rs. 300, AWARDED BY THE AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF INDIA IN THE YEAR 1871.
_FOURTH EDITION_, REVISED AND SUPPLEMENTED BY ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS.
LONDON: W. B. WHITTINGHAM & CO., 91, GRACECHURCH STREET. CALCUTTA: THACKER & CO. 1883.
Six new Chapters are added. So much has been done in Tea since I last wrote, I found it impossible to embody all in the former book, and so preferred to give it separately. The new Chapters treat of--
COUNTRIES OUTSIDE CHINA AND INDIA THAT PRODUCE TEA.
MAKING INDIAN TEA KNOWN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
WEIGHING AND BULKING OF INDIAN TEAS AT CUSTOM HOUSE.
A separate and full Index of the subjects treated of in the additions to this Fourth Edition will be found at the end of the Book.
EAST INDIA CLUB, ST. JAMES’S SQUARE, _July, 1883_.
The experience of four more years, which includes six months’ residence in the Neilgherries, is embodied in the following, while the whole of the letter-press of the Second Edition has been corrected and revised.
Three years’ further experience, and visiting two Tea districts I had not seen before, have enabled me to amend whatever was faulty in the First Edition. The whole has been revised, and much new matter is added throughout. A new Chapter at the end on the Past, the Present, and the Future of Indian Tea will, it is hoped, be found interesting. An Index (a great want to the First Edition) is added, so that all information on any point can be at once found. The manufacture of Green Tea, of which I was ignorant when I last wrote, is given, and the advisability of that manufacture is discussed.
In its present form I hope and believe this little work will be found useful and interesting to all connected with Tea.
The following Essay was written with, _firstly_, the object of competing for the Gold Medal and the Money Prize offered by the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India for the best treatise on the cultivation and manufacture of Tea; and, _secondly_, with the view of arranging the hundreds of notes on these subjects, which, in the course of eleven years, I had collected.
