TEA PLANTING" EXPERIMENTS IN SOUTH

Colonist, Volume IX, Issue 927, 14 August 1866, Page 10

TEA PLANTING" EXPERIMENTS IN SOUTH

AUSTRALIA.

(From the Melbourne Age!)

At the present moment an important experiment is being made at South Australia. A gentleman named Sterndale, who was formerly an Australian colonist, and who has latterly been a tea-planter in India, has just delivered a small quantity of.tea seed to the Government at Adelaide—one cwt.^— and they have determined to sow one-half of this 1 quantity in, the Botanic Garden's at that city, and to distribute the remaining half amongst persons who will undertake the experiment of cultivation in vainous other parts of the cokmy. In this colony of Victoria we have numerous localities—notably, the mountainous country near Beechworth, arid also.Mqunt Macedon —where it is admitted by persons of Chinese and Indian experience, that the tea plant would flourish1 luxuriantly. How is it, then, that some practical, effort ia not made to, turn these natural advantages of. the country to good accountiin this important matter? If we misjfcalfe not, Dr. Mueller has.been successful in raising 'a goodly iiximbeip df young tea plants in the experimental ground of the Botanic Gardeni At tiouth larra,