Excerpt from The Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea in the United States About 1890 Dr. Shepard, behaving that the experimental attempts previously made did not conclusively demonstrate that tea growing in the United States was out of the question, began the growing of tea, at first on a small scale. The reasons leading him to undertake seriously to do what had hitherto failed were several. 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.