Art. IV.—Report on the Progress of the Culture of the China Tea Plant in the Himalayas, from 1835 to 1847

Abstract

Among the several experiments now in progress for the improvement of the Resources of India, there is not one which, in its ultimate effects, will probably be of such great importance, as the cultivation of the genuine Tea-plant of China in the valleys and slopes of the Himalayan Mountains. Having some further recommendations to make, respecting a culture which I believe I was the first to recommend to the Indian Government in the present localities, I think it advisable to give an account of the reasons which led to the suggestion, as welL as of the results which have been obtained.