For a Tea-occasion at which the jar in which the new leaf-tea of that year has been stored during summer and autumn is first unsealed, thus allowing one to offer one's guests the very freshest of newly-ground tea, it is a tradition long-established to use a single white camellia and some form of autumn-tinted foliage. Nevertheless, rather than the latter, I have here ventured to use ilex instead.

Since the receptacle has a large mouth, I have retained as many as five of the camellia leaves, and have sought to generate a contrast between the severity of the ilex leaves and the idiosyncratic form of the jar.