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National Geographic : 1920 Mar
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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE A MAP OF FORMOSA (TAIWAN) SHOWING ITS GEOGRAPHICAL RELATION TO JAPAN, CHINA, AND THE PHILIPPINES United States. The little that goes to Eng land is generally used in making choice blends in combination with other teas. GUARDING TEA FROM OBNOXIOUS FREIGHT As an additional protective measure, each chest is sewn up in reed matting. So sensitive is tea to other freight that a tea merchant, before he loads his cargo, has to find out what goods a ship is carrying in her hold. Tea and copra, for instance, cannot travel together with anything approaching congeniality. More over, if it so happens that some Asiatic disease breaks out on the ship and the hold is fumigated, the tea might just as well have caught the disease and died, for its commercial life is at an end. Besides the Oolong tea, whose natural fragrance is of the sort to commend it self to the most fastidious tea-bibber, there is an artificially scented tea, called Pouchong, produced in Formosa. This is exported chiefly to the Philippines and the Straits Settlements for Chinese con sumption. Four kinds of flowers are used in the process of scenting Pouchong-two va rieties of jasmine, white oleanders, and gardenias. These flowers are grown in great quantities outside the city of Tai hoku for this purpose, and are bartered on a certain street corner in Daitotei. I shall always recall this street corner as the abode of Perfume-an oasis of Fragrance in a hostile desert. Coming down Hokumongai, the principal street in Daitotei, the sensitive western nose is 262
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