Above a landscape of neatly-trimmed tea bushes, stitched with the crimson blossoms of bougainvillea and the lavender blaze of jacaranda trees, the festive spirit seemed to carry a message of optimism.
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He wrote " The Diseases and Pests of the Rubber Tree " ( 1921 ) and " Diseases of the Tea Bush " ( 1924 ), which were used for decades afterwards.
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According to legend, a Taoist Master Wu Lizhen ( 4Tt w ) first planted seven tea bushes on Meng Mountain during the Ganlu era ( 53-50 BCE ) of Emperor Xuan of Han dynasty.
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""'Tippy "': A term commonly referred to the unopened buds on the tea bush which are transformed into silvery particles called Tips, and which provide an attractive appearance in the finished tea.
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It was not until the early 1830s that Robert s brother, Charles, arranged for a few leaves from the Assam tea bush to be sent to the botanical gardens in Calcutta for proper examination.
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The first tea bushes planted in Zimbabwe originated from a box of seeds smuggled out of India in 1924 by Mrs Florence Phillips, a tea-planter s wife from Assam, and were planted near Chipinge.
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All the bamboo rats are regarded as agricultural pests, since they eat the roots of a range of crop plants such as tapioca, sugar cane, and tea bushes, but they are also recognised as valuable food animals.
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The innate flavour of the dried tea leaves is determined by the type of cultivar of the tea bush, the quality of the plucked tea leaves, and the manner and quality of the production processing they undergo.
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After the lapsang souchong tea was used for producing black tea called Min Hong ( meaning " Black tea produced in Fujian " ), people started to move the tea bush to different places, such as Keemun, India and Ceylon.
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The large, fleshy buds of the " Big White, " " Small White " and " Narcissus " tea bushes were selected to make white teas and are still used today as the raw material for the production of white tea.
