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IN India, tea bushes (Camellia sinensis L.) are pruned and plucked to a flat horizontal surface1 the area of which can be easily estimated2, provided that the bushes are sufficiently far apart without mutually interlocking frames. This condition was maintained in a field-trial in which 12 disparate populations were grown in the sun and under Albizzia chinensis trees, both with and without ammonium sulphate at the rate of 112 kgm. nitrogen per hectare (100 lb. per acre) per annum. The bushes were planted on the triangular system, 1.37 m. (4½ ft.) apart. The surface area of the bush frame was measured immediately after the annual pruning when the bushes were 15 years old.
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BARUA, D. Top Growth of Cultivated Tea. Nature 184, 1424 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841424a0
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