Climate, 14 -- in each district, 14 to 25 -- wanted, 14 -- rainfall, 14, 28 -- rain table, 28 -- temperature table, 26 -- elevation table, 26 -- cold, 14 -- hot winds, 14 -- affects flavour of tea, 15 -- good for tea, bad for man, 15, 35 Cultivation, 81 -- what is it, 81 -- when a waste of labour, 81 -- by digging round each plant, 82 -- weeds not to get ahead, 83 -- Dutch hoe for, 83 -- cost each operation per acre, 84 -- cost of, to 6th year, 84 -- cost of in full bearing, 85 Districts, 13 -- which best, 30 -- rainfall in, 28 -- cold in, 26 -- of Assam, 15 -- of Cachar, 16 -- of Chittagong, 16 -- of Terai below Darjeeling, 18 -- of Dehra Dhoon, 18 -- of Kangra, 19 -- of Darjeeling, 20 -- of Kumaon, 22 -- of Gurhwal, 24 Districts of Hazareebaugh, 24 -- of Neilgherries, 24 -- of Western Dooars, 25 -- meteorological table of, 26 -- comparative advantages of, 30 -- soil of, 13 to 25 -- jungle of, 13 to 25 -- lay of land of, 13 to 25 -- price waste lands in, 4 -- elevation of, 26 -- temperature of, 26 Distances for plants, 72 -- table of, 72 -- regulated by class, 72 -- best, 72 Flushes, 97 -- number of, 97 to 101 -- way formed, 104 -- differ in districts, 98 -- intervals between, 99 Hills and Plains-- -- comparison of, chap. iii. -- high elevations bad, do. -- table of elevation, 26 Jungle, 34 -- what best in Himalayas, 34 -- not of much consequence in Bengal, 34 Jungle, coarse grass, 34 -- cutting, 75 Labour, 10 -- local, 10, 11, 12 -- imported, 10, 11, 12 -- government action, 10, 11 -- cost of imported, 10 Labour in tea districts, chap. iii. Laying out a garden, 42 Lay of land and aspect, 37 -- flat, sloping, steep, 7, 13, 35 -- aspect, 39 -- valleys, 40 -- narrow valleys, 40 Lay of land and selection of steep land, 7, 37 -- disadvantages of steep land, 37 -- lines on steep land, 46 -- plants close on steep land, 45 Leaf-picking, 102 -- principles of, 102 -- diagram of shoot, 104 -- teas made from each leaf, 107 -- cannot make separate teas in practice, 107 -- pruning connected with, 102 -- mistakes in, 42 -- how shoots form, 104 -- mode of, 104 Manufacture, 109 -- importance of good, 109 -- old and new plan, 110 -- withering, 110, 111, 123 -- rolling, 111, 112 -- panning, 109, 112 -- sunning, 112, 128 -- tea, how judged, 113 -- Pekoe tips, 105, 106, 114, 115, 116, 122 -- strong teas and Pekoe tips incompatible, 116 -- fermenting or colouring, 127 -- firing or dholing, 128 -- of flowery Pekoe, 130