The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-08-14

CULTIVATION OF TEA IN GEORGIA AND
FLoRiDA.--The Savannah Republican says
that MIR. Frank BOnynge, now in Charles
ton, will soon visit Savannah, with a pros
pectus for furnishing tea, indigo, and other
East India plants, which are calculated to
grow in Georgia and Florida. Mr.. Bon
ynge has the best possible evidence that he
may be relied upon. He has passed four
teen years in the country where these plants
grow, and Is perfectly acquainted with the
whole subject. His essay on the culture
and preparation of tea, &c., will form an
important part Of the next Patent Office
Report.
Subscribers to this important undertak-
ing will have a claim to twelve tea plants,
twelve mangoe plants, twelve date tree
plants, twelve leechee tree plants, twelve
coffee PLANTS, four ounces of melon seeds,
each kind; half pound indigo seed (,f re-
CURED Subscriptions are $50 each. -
! Subscribers to the amount of 500 will he
entitled 10 the above aud any other plants
from India which they may desire. Twen-
ty-five dollars will procure one. halt the
above quantity Of plants.
! The Republican is persuaded that this
enterprise Of Mr.. Bonynge is destined to be
a source of vast profit TO the Southern
States through the agency Of slave labor
II only remains for few gentlemen in
Georgia and Florida, by their subscriptions,
to do an immense probable benefit to their
respective States. II conmsnds this pro-
| ject to its planters in serious earnestDess.
| That tea can he grown successfully IN
Carolina, Georgia aud Florida, is almost
certain; because the experiment has been
pretty fairly tried. The thermometer at
J han ,haI IpHic atp q cniI hN
thirteen degrees, than in Charleston, S. G.
The cold winters OF lS34-'S5, which des-
troyed the oranges on Mr.. Middleton's
plantation, left his tea plants uninjured.-
Mr.. Bonynge has seen this plant growing
wild on hills from three 10 five hundred feet
in height, where there was an abundance of
frost, snow and hail. AS for indigo. that
substance has been already grown to great
advantage in the Southern States.
The average cost Of tea IN China at the
ships side is twenty cents per pound, while
il could be produced at ten cents The
greatest cost in China is owing to expensive
transportation, the cultivation of the fuel
used, the absence Of all economy of ma
chinery, SC. 1t is only by aduteration that
tea is sold in China as cheap as twenty
cents. In America the beating and rolling
Of the leaves (one-haIf Of the labor,) ca,
be done 10y the simplest machinery. fuel car
be economised by fues, &c. The RUSSIA
teas, brought 10y caravans, are the most ex-
pensive and hest teas used in Europe. The
Chinese themselves pay $3.50 per pounc
for the Yam POnchong teas.
From The date tree East India sugar j.
made, aud they will grow on pine, barrer
or sandy soil.
The leeche is large shady tree, bearing
delicious fruit in great quantities.
The mango is very large shady tree
throwing at all times, particularly in sum
mer, delightfuI perfume. II bears a hn'
fruit, which forms considerable portion u
the food of lac, ,000, 900 of inhabitants.
All the East India melons will grow frou
latitude 40 deg. downwards.