. 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. TEA TECOMA 1775 experiments. Nevertheless, the resultant patches and larger gardens unquestionably produced Tea of tine flavor, although very generally devoid of that strength of liquor which latterly, and especially since the intro- duction of the ludo-Ceylon Teas, appears to constitute a most desirable qualit
. 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. TEA TECOMA 1775 experiments. Nevertheless, the resultant patches and larger gardens unquestionably produced Tea of tine flavor, although very generally devoid of that strength of liquor which latterly, and especially since the intro- duction of the ludo-Ceylon Teas, appears to constitute a most desirable quality for many consumers. It may be presumed, however, that this failure in pungency was largely due to defective curing and particularly to inadequate rolling of the leaf, in consequence of which the cup qualities of the Tea were not fully developed. So far as is known, it remained for the National Department of Agriculture to be- gin, twenty years ago, the fii'st serious at- tempt to produce American commercial Tea. Unhappily, the retirement from office of Commissioner Wra. G. Le Due, to whose great interest iu this subject the inception of the experiment was due ; the serious prostration by illness of Mr. John Jackson, who had cultivated Tea in India, and under whose management the seed was obtained and the gardens established; the great dis- tance of the station from its source of con- trol (Washington), as also the unfavorable opinion of a subsequent commissioner as to the ultimate success of the undertak- ing, combined to cause the total abandon- ment by the Government of the tea-gar- dens which it had established on the same "Newingtou" plantation that embraced the adjoining site of the later formed Pinehurst estate. The Pinehurst investigation owed its ori- gin to the belief that the previous attempts to demonstrate the feasibility of American Tea culture had been arrested before reach- ing definite conclusions. More careful cul- tivation and manipulation, the res
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