Americans Use Green Tea

In a general way Americana use green tea more tbándo theirEuglish brothers, who are devoted to the bJack variety. This accounts for the f act that the United States gets most of its tea frorn Japan, whii h very little ;f Om darker quiiiitiea Dr. Edwarü Beiiloe of Pbiladelpbia, ex-consul to Amoy, ( i ina, predicts that the island cl Formosa, uuder the Japanese govermaenf, will put out the best reas in the woylcl and that the product of thia ish'.nd, which formerly sent its tea to Amoy and Hongkong before shipping it ou to the western markets, will soon ship directly f rom its own ports. English aiid American tea buyers say that it isaluiost impossible to secure the best teas, as the Russians watch the produotion of the finest qualities and pay fabulous prices for the kinds they want. The official classes of Rtissia are said to pay as high as $15 a pound for a kind of tea which they particularly prefer - an almost white quality, which has a peculiar, oillike flavor which is not at all relished by forëigners.