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The Daily Dispatch: September 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
, a gentleman who had long resided in China and witnessed and made himself familiar with the cultivation of the tea plant, and the mode of preparing tea for market, settled in South Carolina and commenced a plantation. Before complete success crowned his efforts he died, and we have seen it stated that his secret, if, indeed, there was any, died with him. Recently we have seen favorable mention made of some tea grown in North Carolina. The last notice we have seen is that in the Washington (N. C.) Dispatch, and is as follows: "Selby Spencer, Esq., of Lake Comfort, Hyde county, has presented to us some more of the green tea which he has been successful in growing. The seed was given to a neighbor of Mr. Spencer's by an English Captain some years ago. Mr. S. procured some, and has succeeded very well in cultivating it. The past year he planted about the 10th of an acre and gathered 10 or 12 bushels. This experiment, it seems, demonstrates that green ten--the veritable