TEA GROWING IN EUROPE.
A Home letter in the Sydney Morning Herald says The Chinese tea market is threatened with a serious competition of tea of European growth. Southern Italy is to be the grower of tea for the Westeran barbarians,| who have so long been the absolute dependants of the sons of the Flowery Land', and if its cultivation succeeds on the Peninsula it will be attempted in other Mediterranean countries. A few years ago
Count d’Amigo, thd ap'dstle of Europan tea-growing, planted bis Sicilian farm with choice specimens of various Chinese teas. The pLnts have thriven as finely as though they were in Chinn, and there is said to be no point in which they are inferior. The Count has placed an expert Chinaman at the head of his tea farm, and' the difficult process of drying has been, under his, auspices, carried on with entire'-' success; The 1 plantation is therefore . about to be greatly increased. ’Count d‘Amigo is sanguine that he has struck out a new and valuable branch of agricultural industry for the south of Italy, at all events.”
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Temuka Leader, Issue 363, 15 March 1881, Page 3
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184TEA GROWING IN EUROPE. Temuka Leader, Issue 363, 15 March 1881, Page 3
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