INDEX.

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