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Australian
Colonies,
New
Zealand,
Tasmania,
Great
Britain,
Newfoundland,
Canada,
Bermuda,
United
States,
Holland,
Cape
Colony,
Natal,
Russia,
Denmark,
Uruguay,
Argentine
Republic;
B.
Honduras,
Barbadoes,
Trinidad,
Antigua,
British
Guiana,
Persia,
Portugal,
Bahamas,
Switzerland,
Norway,
Germany,
Grenada,
Morocco,
St.
Vincent,
Jamaica,
Belgium,
Sweden,
France,
Roumania,
Austria-Hungary,
Bulgaria,
Spain,
Turkey
(no
returns),
Italy
(ditto),
Greece
(nominal),
Mauritius,
1888,
106,589
lbs.
Sierra
Leone,
1888,
6,008
lbs.
The
tea
shrub
grows
wild
in
Assam,
and
in
other
parts
between
the
limits
of
N.
Latitude
15°
to
40°,
and
this
zone
is
most
favourable
to
its
growth
in
its
culti-
vated
form,
although
of
late
years
Ceylon,
which
is
nearer
the
equator,
has
made
enormous
strides
in
the
production
of
tea.
Up
to
the
present
time,
however,
China
has
furnished
the
largest
quantity,
and
for
cen-
turies
has
enjoyed
the
monopoly
of
its
production
;
a
monopoly
now
broken
down,
and
every
day
vanishing,
ijiainly
owing
to
the
roguery
of
its
manufacturers
and
the
folly
of
its
growers.
Of
course)
such
a
plant
could
have
had
no
common
origin,
and
no
reader
need
be
surprised
at
its
story.
The
legend
runs
that
Prince
Darma,
or
Djarma,
the