Fortunately for Tea enterprise, the more manufacture is studied the more does it appear that to make good Tea is a very simple process. The many operations or processes formerly considered necessary are now much reduced on all gardens. As there was then, that is formerly, so there is now, no _one_ routine recognized by all, or even by the majority; still simplicity in manufacture is more and more making its way everywhere; and as the real fact is that to make the best Tea, but very few, and very simple, processes are necessary, it is only a question of time ere the fact shall be universally recognised and followed out. For instance, panning the “roll”[36] was formerly universally practised. Some panned once, some twice, some even three times! But, to-day, pans are not used in most gardens at all!! Other processes, or rather in most cases the repetition of them, have been also either discarded or abridged. But a short statement of manufacture in old days, and the simplest mode of manufacture, will best illustrate my meaning:-- -----+--------------------------------+---------------------------------- | One and a common old plan |One plan to-day by which the best | | Tea can be made -----+----------+---------------------+-----+----------+----------------- | Number | | | Number | Days | of | Detail |Days | of | Detail |operations| | |operations| -----+----------+---------------------+-----+----------+----------------- 1st | 1 |Withering. |1st | 1 |Withering. {| 2 |1st Rolling. | {| 2 |Rolling. {| 3 |2nd „ |2nd {| 3 |Fermenting. {| 4 |Fermenting. | {| 4 |Sunning (if sun). {| 5 |1st Panning. | {| 5 |Firing (Dholing). 2nd {| 6 |3rd Rolling. | | | {| 7 |2nd Panning. | | | {| 8 |4th Rolling | | | {| 9 |Sunning. | | | {| 10 |1st Firing (Dholing).| | | {| 11 |Cooling and crisping.| | | 3rd | 12 |2nd Firing (Dholing).| | | -----+----------+---------------------+-----+----------+----------------- 3 | 12 | Total days and | 2 | 5 | Total days and | | operations. | | | operations. -----+----------+---------------------+-----+----------+----------------- So much for simplicity, and I affirm that no more than the five operations detailed are necessary. I shall try to show this further on.