. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1774 TEA TEA artificial irrigation of tea fields, whereby it is designed to better approximate to the oriental supply of water during the cropping season, although, of course, it will be needless to attempt to imitate the tropical deluges which not only run off from, but with the soil. The selection of the most
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1774 TEA TEA artificial irrigation of tea fields, whereby it is designed to better approximate to the oriental supply of water during the cropping season, although, of course, it will be needless to attempt to imitate the tropical deluges which not only run off from, but with the soil. The selection of the most suitable location for the establishment of a tea estate, becomes, then, of the greatest importance. The choice of fertile, flat lands, uuderlaid by a porous subsoil, susceptible of irrigation by gravity, as a safe-guard against droughts, will obvi- ate the necessity of applying artificial enrichment, of underdrainage, and of elevating by applied power the water needed for irrigation. By a careful observance of these details and the selection of the right sort of seed, the American tea-garden may be made to yield as much or more than the parent bushes from which it sprung. And as the successful commercial tea estate must be on a large scale, like similar undertakings in sugar,whether beet or cane, it will be necessary to consider the means of transportation and accessibility to markets, abundant supply of labor and healthfulness of situation. The" part played by purely manual labor in the culti- vation and manufacture of black Tea upon the best equipped British tea estates in India, is being steadily encroached upon by mechanical appliances until now it has been almost relegated to its last functions of plant- pruning and leaf-plucking, where it is probably secure. It is true that the cultivation of the soil on the above- mentioned gardens largely depends on manual labor with the hoe, spade and fork. This is the natural se- quence of the heavy rains which otherwise denude
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