Americans Use Green Tea

In a general way Americana use green tea more than do their English brothers, who are devoted to the black variety. This accouDts for the fact that the United States gets most of its tea from Japan, which produces very Httle oL tho darke ouilities. Dr. Edward Bedloe oL Fbiïiaelphia, ex-consul to Amoy, China, p"8dicts that the island of Formosa, under the Japanese government, will put out the best teas in the world and that the product of this island, which formerly sent its tea to Amoy and Hongkong before shipping lt out to the western markets, will soon ship directly from its own ports. English and American tea buyers gay that it is impossible to secure the best teas, as the Russlans watch the production of the finest qualities and pay fabulous prices for the kinds they want The official classes of Russia are said to pay as high as $15 a pound for a kind of tea which they particularly prefer-an almost white quallty, which has a peculiar, oil-like flavor that is not at all relished by