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sent 169 young trees to Amsterdam for the Botanical Garden, whence the Jardin des Plantes in Paris receiv- ed one. Captain Declieux took a layer of this to Mar- where it grew so well that in a few years all the Antilles could be supplied with trees. The consumption of coffee amounts, in England, to i% Ibs., in France to 2J^, in Germany to 4, in Denmark to 55^, in Switzerland to 6, in Holland to 10 to 12, and in the United States to more than 9 Ibs. per head yearly. tinique, TEA is the name of a shrub belonging to the Camell- ia family with alternate and simple leaves, not dotted; the flowers are large and showy, with a persistent calyx of five overlapping sepals, and they have many sta- mens, their filaments united at the bottom with each other and with the base of the petals. Formerly different kinds were supposed to exist, all of which were said to be indigenous to China, Japan and India, until Robert Fortune, known by his botani- cal journeys, proved the incorrectness of this opinion. He lived for a long while in the tea districts of China and India for the purpose of studying the manufacture of tea; he showed that all sorts of tea that are thrown upon the market descend from one kind that extreme- ly varies; this variation is shown chiefly in regard to the length and width of the leaves; in the course of a

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