Coffee was as unsuitable for the cool, wet uplands of Mulanje, but tea was planted and from 1904 its tea bushes were producing tea for export.
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Also on view will be flowers re-creating some of Rosecliff's most notable parties as well as its extraordinary rose garden with more than 200 hybrid tea bushes.
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In the colder upper reaches, they developed a taste for the tender green leaves of the tea bushes that are the basis of Sri Lanka's main industry.
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It's lemongrass, certainly one form of tea bush, but only one of scores of herbs that have traditionally been used to make medicinal tea on these islands.
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Tazo helps rural communities in Darjeeling, India, where tea bushes are grown, and the Republic of Tea donates funds to a breast cancer foundation and an environmental group.
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Most hybrid tea bushes tend to be somewhat upright in habit, and reach between 0.75 and 2.0 metres in height, depending on the cultivar, growing conditions and pruning regime.
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The cultivation of mulberry trees for silkworms and tea bushes could be found mostly south of the Yangzi River; even further south sugarcane and citrus were grown as basic crops.
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Tea is cultivated in Sri Lanka using the contour planting method, where tea bushes are planted in lines in coordination with the contours of the land, usually on slopes.
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Less than a year after his return Leschenault travelled to South America, visiting Brazil, Surinam and French Guiana, and introducing tea bushes to Cayenne, the capital of the French colony.
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Hidden among thousands of tea bushes, Hutus and Tutsis sweat together each morning, swiftly plucking the leaves two at a time and tossing them into straw baskets strapped to their backs.
