Very fine quality Tea - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 66298 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Image | Plant Name | 28.01 THEACEAE Camellia sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Very fine quality Tea | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | China | TDWG Region | China | ||
| Parts Held | Very fine quality Tea | Geography Description | China | ||
| Uses | Very fine quality TeaUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Lawrence Sir Trevor | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1881 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Padre Colony. The Colony the Chinese prepared for their priests, the most delicate and aromatic tea found in London Market, to which in some years, none at all comes. Sir T Lawrence. Label source: Note recd. from Director to retain in Muse, um if required 24.9.04 JMST. 57 Princes Gate S.W., Feb. 5.81. Dear Dr Dyer, My colleague, Sir Henry Pech, is anxious to know whether there is any botanical difference between the ordinary tea of commerce, and a sample I have posted to you. The sample is o, f 'Padre' Oolong - i.e. the oolong the Chinese prepare for their priests. It is the finest, most delicate & aromatic tea to be found in the London Market, to which in some years none at all comes. I believe the tea is simply a finer & more scientifically?, quality - but will you kindly give me a reliable opinion. For many years, Sir Henry has sent, as a token of homage, a supply of their tea to Lord Beaeaurfield ????? - so it may probably have ?? some of their /see enclosed note - illegible!!! Mr Clarke t, hinks this tea is simply a fine kind of Pekoe - namely the younger leaves and top ? ? of the ordinary tea plant. | ||||