- Area required for a garden, 2
- — large, a mistake, 2
- Boxes, 147
- — cost of, 161
- Climate, 14
- — in each district, 14 to 25
- — wanted, 14
- — rainfall, 14, 28
- — rain table, 28
- — temperature table, 26
- — elevation table, 26
- — cold, 14
- — hot winds, 14
- — affects flavour of tea, 15
- — good for tea, bad for man, 15, 35
- Cultivation, 81
- — what is it, 81
- — when a waste of labour, 81
- — by digging round each plant, 82
- — weeds not to get ahead, 83
- — Dutch hoe for, 83
- — cost each operation per acre, 84
- — cost of, to 6th year, 84
- — cost of in full bearing, 85
- Districts, 13
- — which best, 30
- — rainfall in, 28
- — cold in, 26
- — of Assam, 15
- — of Cachar, 16
- — of Chittagong, 16
- — of Terai below Darjeeling, 18
- — of Dehra Dhoon, 18
- — of Kangra, 19
- — of Darjeeling, 20
- — of Kumaon, 22
- — of Gurhwal, 24
- Districts of Hazareebaugh, 24
- — of Neilgherries, 24
- — of Western Dooars, 25
- — meteorological table of, 26
- — comparative advantages of, 30
- — soil of, 13 to 25
- — jungle of, 13 to 25
- — lay of land of, 13 to 25
- — price waste lands in, 4
- — elevation of, 26
- — temperature of, 26
- Distances for plants, 72
- — table of, 72
- — regulated by class, 72
- — best, 72
- Flushes, 97
- — number of, 97 to 101
- — way formed, 104
- — differ in districts, 98
- — intervals between, 99
- Hills and Plains—
- — comparison of, chap. iii.
- — high elevations bad, do.
- — table of elevation, 26
- Jungle, 34
- — what best in Himalayas, 34
- — not of much consequence in Bengal, 34
- Jungle, coarse grass, 34
- — cutting, 75
- Labour, 10
- — local, 10, 11, 12
- — imported, 10, 11, 12
- — government action, 10, 11
- — cost of imported, 10
- Labour in tea districts, chap. iii.
- Laying out a garden, 42
- Lay of land and aspect, 37
- — flat, sloping, steep, 7, 13, 35
- — aspect, 39
- — valleys, 40
- — narrow valleys, 40
- Lay of land and selection of steep land, 7, 37
- — disadvantages of steep land, 37
- — lines on steep land, 46
- — plants close on steep land, 45
- Leaf-picking, 102
- — principles of, 102
- — diagram of shoot, 104
- — teas made from each leaf, 107
- — cannot make separate teas in practice, 107
- — pruning connected with, 102
- — mistakes in, 42
- — how shoots form, 104
- — mode of, 104
- Manufacture, 109
- — importance of good, 109
- — old and new plan, 110
- — withering, 110, 111, 123
- — rolling, 111, 112
- — panning, 109, 112
- — sunning, 112, 128
- — tea, how judged, 113
- — Pekoe tips, 105, 106, 114, 115, 116, 122
- — strong teas and Pekoe tips incompatible, 116
- — fermenting or colouring, 127
- — firing or dholing, 128
- — of flowery Pekoe, 130
- Manufacture of green tea, 130, 144
- — sifting and sorting, 134, 135, 136, 161
- — sieves, 135
- — Chinese sieves best, 135
- — classes of tea, 137
- — cost of, 160
- — ignorance of, 7
- Manufacture, coarse leaf, 126
- — burntness, 143
- Manure, 67
- — advantages of, 17, 67
- — how to apply, 68
- — quantity, 69
- — cost of, 69
- — kinds of, 67
- — results of, 69
- Management, accounts, forms, 152
- — what qualities required for a Manager, 152
- — forms, 153
- — accounts, 158
- Making a garden, 73
- — general instructions for, 73
- Mechanical contrivances, 116
- — McMeekin’s rolling table, 116
- — Kinmond’s rolling machine, 116
- — Nelson’s rolling machine, 118
- — Jackson’s rolling machine, 116
- — McMeekin’s drawers, 119
- — Money’s furnace, 121, 296
- — sifting machines, 121
- — machine required to separate the leaves, 122
- — packing machines, 121
- Miscellaneous:—
- Transport, chap. iii.
- — in each district, chap. iii.
- Green tea, 21, 130, 144
- Stagnant water, 40
- Inundation, 40
- Sections, 42
- Yield, 43, 170
- Lines of plants, 45, 46
- Roads, 45
- Relative price green and black teas, 133
- Yield first 10 years, 170
- Necessities for tea, 173, 180
- Past, present, and future of Indian tea, 174
- Strange facts about tea, 174
- Imports, 177
- Annual consumption, 177
- Collapse of tea speculation, 178
- Share list to-day, 179
- Money matters: will tea pay?, 1
- — why has it not paid sometimes?, 1, 6
- — cause of failures, 1 to 8
- — wilful extensions, 6
- — price paid for gardens, 8
- — faulty area sold, 8
- — cost of making a 300-acre garden, 163
- — how much profit tea can give, 168
- — table, result 300 acres for 12 years, 172
- Packing, 147
- — lead case for, 147
- — larger each break the better, 151
- — cost of, 161
- Planting at stake, 59
- — advantages of, 57
- — disadvantages of, 58
- — mode of, 59
- Pruning, 86
- — time for, 86
- — instruments for, 87
- — height to prune, 88
- — cost of, 88
- Sale Lands, Waste Lands—
- — sale waste lands, 3
- — auction system, 3
- — price waste lands, 4
- — title, 4
- Sanitation, 35
- Seed, 54
- — transport of, 55
- — price of, 7
- — shade, natural, 62
- — do. artificial, 64
- — how to sow, 57
- — when ripe, 54
- — treatment of, 54
- Seed as manure, 55
- — number in 1 maund, 56
- — proportions that germinate, 56
- — Government gave seed, 51
- — indigenous hybrid and China alike, 51
- — how to increase, 55
- — nurseries or stake planting best, 57
- Soil, 31
- — only general rules for, 31
- — sandy, 31
- — greasy, 32
- — poor, 32
- — Ball on, 32
- — friable and porous, 32
- — in Tea districts, 13, 25, 31
- — clay, 33
- — decayed vegetation, 33
- — for seed beds, 62
- Transplanting, 76
- — holes for, 59, 76
- — mode of, 77
- — results of bad, 77
- — when to be finished, 78
- — best days for, 79
- Vacancies, 92
- — difficult to fill up, 92
- — why difficult, 92
- — best plan to fill up, 92
- — large proportion of, 6
- Varieties of tea plants, 47
- White-ants, Crickets, Blight, 89
- — harm done by crickets, 89
- — harm done by white-ants, 90
- — harm done by blight, 91
- — remedies for crickets, 90
- — do. white-ants, 91
- — do. blight, 91
- Weeds, 82
- — ahead of labour, 83
About This Book
A practical manual explaining how to establish, cultivate, and process tea plantations, covering site selection, climate and soil considerations, nursery and planting techniques, pruning, pest control, flushing and leaf‑picking, and the manufacture steps for both black and green teas. It describes factory arrangement, mechanical aids, sifting and sorting, packing, bookkeeping, and cost calculations, with guidance on garden management, labour, sanitation, and filling vacancies. Later sections present production statistics, accounts of producing regions beyond China and India, market channels and ways to promote homegrown teas, and procedures for weighing and bulking at customs. The work offers hands‑on recommendations aimed at beginners and practitioners.