Here is an ebook that is usefull "Tea Leaves" Leggett, 1900

http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/eclec...chapter-i.html

Jim

(bruce) wrote in message . com>...
> Wow, great info! Thanks for correcting me. I always thought red tea
> was a much more recent invention and I never knew it was only invented
> for foriegners. What dates does that book attribute to the other
> styles of tea?