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, when james taylor, an enterprising -year-old from scotland, planted the first tea bushes (which he had brought from assam) over acres of the loolecondera estate in hewahata, located close to kandy in sri lanka. but although the climate was nippy, and the soil rich enough to grow tea, taylor was an
inexperienced teenager. he then brought in three veterans of the industry from india, who trained him in the process of plucking, withering and rolling tea leaves, in the manufacture of samples, and the pruning of tea bushes. fortune further favoured taylor when, in , an outbreak of fungus destroyed...
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