Tea leaves - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 66244 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 28.01 THEACEAE Camellia sp | Entry Book Number | 99.1896 | |
| Artefact Name | Tea leaves | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | China | TDWG Region | China | ||
| Parts Held | Tea leaves | Geography Description | China | ||
| Uses | Tea leavesUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Preece JR | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: White tea imported into Persia from China, and consumed only in Yezo. Report by Messrs Gow, Wilson and Stanton, 13 Rood Lane EC, Dated 13,8,96. This class of tea has been very scarce during the last few years upon the London market and the, price the English trade were prepared to pay being very unsatisfactory with that which could be obtained in Persia. In London this class of tea is called flowery Pekoe Congow, and the last lot that we remember having seen, which was some 2 or 3 years ag, o, we ourselves sold to a client in Constantinople, the tea evidently being destined for the Persian market. The name by which you say it is known in Persia - White tea - very truly describes the article, but the particular sample which you sent is not s, o white or silky as some we have previously seen. For home consumption this tea is not worth much more than 1/- per lb but for report purposes, especially to the market that you named, good specimens command so much as 3/- to 5/- per lb. The variety of t, ea is referred to in For Office Report no 1662 Persia for the year 1894-95 annual series 1896 as follows; White tea from Chine, or particularly Tong-King is consumed only in Yeza, and therefore the supply is limited. | ||||