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Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 +246teaeb11+ |
 | | In 1788 Sir Joseph Banks, at the request of the directors, drew up a memoir on the cultivation of economic plants in Bengal, in which he gave special prominence to tea, pointing out the regions most favourable for its cultivation. |
 | | In 1843, however, Mr Robert Fortune found that, although the two varieties of the plant existed in different parts of China, fl and green tea were produced from the leaves of the same plant by varying the manufacturing processes. |
 | | Sir George Watt (Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, vol. |
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