Cirebon

It is also grown to some extent in Korea, from which country, although claimed by some to be the original country of tea, none is ever exported.

In the year eighteen twenty-six, some tea seeds were sent from Japan to Java and planted as an experiment in the residency of Buitenzorg, where they were found to succeed so well that tea culture was immediately commenced on an extensive scale in the adjoining residencies of Cheribon, Prianger, and Croowong.

The number of tea trees in the former district amounting to over fifty thousand by eighteen thirty-three.

The several other districts of the island to which it had been extended now containing upwards of twenty million trees, from which over twenty million pounds of prepared tea are annually delivered to commerce.

It is also grown to some extent in Korea, from which country, although claimed by some to be the original country of tea, none is ever exported.

In the year eighteen twenty-six, some tea seeds were sent from Japan to Java and planted as an experiment in the residency of Buitenzorg, where they were found to succeed so well that tea culture was immediately commenced on an extensive scale in the adjoining residencies of Cirebon, Prianger, and Croowong.

The number of tea trees in the former district amounting to over fifty thousand by eighteen thirty-three.

The several other districts of the island to which it had been extended now containing upwards of twenty million trees, from which over twenty million pounds of prepared tea are annually delivered to commerce.

It is also grown to some extent in Korea, from which country, although claimed by some to be the original country of tea, none is ever exported.

In the year 1826, some tea seeds were sent from Japan to Java and planted as an experiment in the residency of Buitenzorg, where they were found to succeed so well that tea culture was immediately commenced on an extensive scale in the adjoining residencies of Cheribon, Prianger, and Krowong.

The number of tea trees in the former district amounting to over fifty thousand by 1833.

The several other districts of the island to which it had been extended now containing upwards of twenty million trees, from which over twenty million pounds of prepared tea are annually delivered to commerce.