Sunny Ceylon.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 695, 29 September 1909, Page 6

Sunny Ceylon.

THE GREAT SOURCE OF THE WORLD'S TEA SUPPLY.

The beautiful island of Ceylon is so closely associated nowadays with the production of tea that it will doubtless be a surprise to many persons to learn ihit comparatively few years ago ttre ifca industry in Ceylon was practically non existent. The circumstances under which that country came to take a leading hand in the production of tea are somewhat remarkable. In 1873 the coffee industry, for which Ceylon was then famous, was ruined by disease, and the planters, in the face of apparently insurmountable obstacles and by stubborn perseverance and enterprise, established the tea industry iu its place, and with such success that they, like their fellows in India, have beaten the Chinese at their own game, producing a fiuer quality of leaf at a less price. A visit to the tea plantations of Ceylon is a thing to be remembere!. The s-cmb from which the leaves are gathered to make the tea grows on the higher slopes of the mountains, which rise up in the centre of the island, and the journey from the coast to the hills is one that in respect of charm, interest, and beauty few railway journeys can equal. The train,- after leaving Colombo, climbs up mountain slopes, through rich riotous foliage, luxuriant with the cocjanut tree, j ickfruit and bread trees, the banana, and many another, down the pathways in which oiesees brot.ze men and women with sweet brown eyes and white teeth, who wave their hands and smile their best to 'the travellers join neying along. It is fr.Jin these uplands of beauty r.lmt the famous Tiger Tea comes. The quility of leaf here grown, as mentioned, is the-world's best, Iu; even of this the proprietors ot Tiger Tei will accept only the very choicest. All their tea must pass Tie highest standard of test, aud thus it is that Tiger Tea has established i*s pie.-ent reputation iu the tea m.nket. of being •' Always on Top. ; ' For 1 ichuess of flavor, economy in u-iing, wholesomeness as a beverage —in fact, for all round value for your money, I iguv Tea chal.enges compaiison with any tea that is sold anywhere. When next ordering tea try Tiger. Thousands of others like it. We know you will do so toj.