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TEA.
33
sent
169
young
trees
to
Amsterdam
for
the
Botanical
Garden,
whence
the
Jardin
des
Plantes
in
Paris
receiv-
ed
one.
Captain
Declieux
took
a
layer
of
this
to
Mar-
tinique,
where
it
grew
so
well
that
in
a
few
years
all
the Antilles
could
be
supplied
with
trees.
The
consumption
of
coffee
amounts,
in
England,
to
i%
Ibs.,
in
France
to
2J^,
in
Germany
to
4,
in
Denmark
to
55^,
in
Switzerland
to
6,
in
Holland
to
10
to
12,
and
in
the
United
States
to
more
than
9
Ibs.
per
head
yearly.
TEA
is
the
name
of a
shrub
belonging
to
the
Camell-
ia
family
with
alternate
and
simple
leaves,
not
dotted;
the
flowers
are
large
and
showy,
with
a
persistent
calyx
of
five
overlapping
sepals,
and
they
have
many
sta-
mens,
their
filaments
united
at
the
bottom
with
each
other
and
with
the
base
of
the
petals.
Formerly
different
kinds
were
supposed
to
exist,
all
of
which
were
said
to
be
indigenous
to
China,
Japan
and
India,
until
Robert
Fortune,
known
by
his
botani-
cal
journeys,
proved
the incorrectness of
this
opinion.
He
lived
for
a
long
while
in
the
tea
districts
of
China
and
India
for
the
purpose
of
studying
the
manufacture
of
tea;
he
showed
that
all
sorts
of
tea
that
are
thrown
upon
the
market
descend
from
one
kind
that
extreme-
ly
varies;
this
variation
is
shown
chiefly
in
regard
to
the
length
and
width
of
the
leaves;
in
the
course
of a