Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-02
PISEHURST.

arc sccn- In fact, nearly every sweet scent ed flower that grows, native Or exotic has found n home at Pinehurst.
 Dr. shepard has also proved beyond question the possibilities of successful ten culturc at Pinchurst, that which Is grown thcrc being equal to the tea of CCylun, and its demand at Sl n pound being greater than the present supply.
 Nothing is moro agrNcable than an in vitation to a o'clock tea nt which Dr. Shcpard's special product Is dispensed. Apart frum its fragrant aroma and deli clous flavor, zcst Is given to tho appetite by n knowledge of its pedigree, Dr. Shcp- ard being n most painstaking and con scicntious gentleman and scientist, kccp. ing his farm in n vigorous and healthy condition. Withal 1t Is an experiment that has attracted much official attention
 Dr. COttam, who has for 25 years lcCn n coffee and tea planter in the island uf Ccy- lon, rcccntly said that he P,garlCd the cul- turc and manufacture of tea at Pinchurst as n great success.
 The girls and boys employed on tho farm pluck with carc, the men roll elf cicntly and the American cvaporators fro successfully, giving n low temperature for the fine orange Pckoc and high tcmpcra- turc for nowcry PckOc and PckOc Sou chang. Pckoo means white down. in Chinese and consists of the first downy sprouts or leaf buds of three year old plants"
 By the way, he advises all teagrowcrs to use only the best Assam hybrid ten sccd, since 1t ''flushcs" and pays better in cul- tivation than the low jut China bush, which runs to seed at an early age. According to his estimate, the cost of cultivation of To acrcs of land in as good condition us those of Dr. Shepard Is us fol lows: Labor, S9O0; mnnure, SlOO; pluck ing leaf, SI5O; factory work, S7OO; chests and packing, Sl3O. total, S2, 300. From these 10 acrcs, at the very lowest estimate, 5000 pounds of marketable tea should bc gathered, salable at SI par pound. Giving the farmer n clear profit of S1uO, or $1O per acrr.
 These, he says, arc bottom figures, and gOod farmer could make much mor. He thinks tea growing will pay well in the state, and that the time is not fur distant when 1t will be n profitable substitute for cotton, inasmuch us 1t grows as well hero with 50 inches of rainfall as it does in Ceylon with 60 inches, Ceylon being only dcgrces north of the equator. Georgia has also recently sent somo fine ten to market, for which So cents per pound has been realized. Professor Massey of the state agricultural college says that the finest tea he ever tasted was grown in the south, and he has no doubt it will be a futurc profitable crop in the Carolinas. MT. Jackson, another expert tcagrowcr from Assam, says that with negro labor ho can raise tea at tho south morc cheaply than with cooly labor in India because tho former is morc reliable than the latter. The cultivation of tea has never bCcn successful north of B dcgrcrs, hut south of this, in the pine belts, from Raleigh to the gulf, the plant can bc grown with success and profit tO the farmers.
 Tho ten plant resembles tho camCllia ia- pOnica. It is m ornamental cvcrgrccn, the flower being of the sweetest fragrance and 1 of delicate beauty Tea gardens wcrc nt-
 tempted at the south bcfuro the war, but they never amounted to anything more than an experiment., rice and cotton claim ing supremacy in all the lower lntitudcs.
 Throughout the south coffee us n bcvcr- ngc is pr,fcrred to tea, while in the north tea is tho universal tipple. Among Eurn- pcan nations tea Is prc-Cmincntly n Brit
 ish, Dutch and Russian drink, coffee and cOcna being mOrc used among the other European nations
 In fact, the love of warm drinks pm
 vails almost universally. In frozen Lab | rador and snowy Russia writes an Ol'- | serving traveller, the climate might ac | count for this prcdilcction, but the cray ing is really deeper seated The practice prevails equally in tropical and in arctic regions In Central America the Indian | of native blood and the creOle of mixed | European racc indulge alike in their an | cicnt chocolate. In southern America the tea of Paraguay Is m almost universal
 beverage. Tho native North American tribes formerly used their Appalachian
 tea, their Oswcgo tea, their Labrador tea and many others, but from FlOrida tO GcorgiA in tho United States and all over tho West India islands the nAturalizcd
 European races sip their favoritc coffee
 On tho contrary, in the northern states of the Union and in tho British provinces the l tea of China Is in constant and daily use. !" Spain and Italy delight in chocolate,
 Franco and Germany and Sweden and
 Turkey in coffee, Russia, Holland and Eng
 land in ten, while poor Ireland makes its warm drintI of tho husks of the cocOa, | when they can get it, the rcfusc of the
 chocolate mills of Italy and Spain. GEORGE E. ELDER