Notes
In China, the tea growing process was a centuries old tradition. Tea seeds were collected in October and planted in a basket of damp, sandy soil until March, when the sprouts were sown in nursery beds. A year later after the spring rains, the plants were moved into rows with each plant four feet apart. Marketable tea leaves were picked by hand in the plants third year when it reached its full height of three to four feet. (John C. Evans, Tea in China: The History of China's National Drink (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992), 121-122.) People buying the Askew's seeds could not have been in a hurry to drink their first cup of tea.

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