- 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