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Sri Lankan tea travelogue...last

Sri Lankan tea travelogue...last

James Taylor's

To Lulacondera...

1867 Ceylon coffee is devastated by rust disease

As a result, the plantation owners were on the brink of bankruptcy.

Therefore, quinine, which is effective against malaria fever and tropical fever,

Tailor is entrusted with cultivating the cinchona tree, which can be used for medicine.

It led to great success.

With this success, the tailor was given Assam tea saplings and seeds.

Leave it to Kandy hinterland, Lulacondera to grow tea

I entrusted it. . . .

Taylor entered the settlement with 200 workers and succeeded

Successful cultivation of tea.

In 1872, tea made by Taylor was expensive even in London.

This was the birth of Ceylon black tea.

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Where Taylor bathed

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Tailor's bench (upper) ・

While watching the scenery from here, tea cultivation and tea processing,

I thought of my hometown in Scotland...

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