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AGRICULTURE.

ones being the Assam indigenous and the Hybrid, a cross
between this and the China. Both of these have larger
leaves and yield more crop. The tea plant, a small tree
when left to. itself, is cultivated on estates in large fields,
in which the.plants are placed about 4 feet apart and severely

TEA LEAF, FLOWER, AND SEED,
pruned at intervals of eighteen months or two years.
They thus form squat bushes about 3 feet high and with
flat spreading tops, so that it is easy for the coolies to get at
the young shoots which are constantly appearing on the top
of the bushes. These shoots, taken together, are termed the