racolte

Updated: May 4, 2025

We cut off from the main stem an arm about the thickness of an ordinary-sized bamboo, and, like it, knotted, for a souvenir of the place and the plant. In this same garden the tea-plant thrived; the proprietor, Count S , makes an annual racolte of its leaves, which he keeps for his own teapot.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846