Excerpt from The Ceylon Tea-Makers' Hand-Book This little book is an attempt to comply with the wish, and is published in the hope that it may be useful to that hard-working body Of men - the Tea-makers of Ceylon. It has no pretension to teach Tea-making to experienced planters, but aims Simply to be what its name denotes, a handy book for the Tea-maker. The information given has been gathered from the Scattered books and pamphlets on the subject current, together with some results of the compiler's experience gained whilst planting for eighteen years in Ceylon, during eleven Of which he has had to do with the manufacture of Tea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.