i8o Journal of Agriculture. [lo March, 1909, 



view from the carriage window loeina remarkable for its variety — dry- 

 stony patches devoted, as has been explained elsewhere, to deep rooting, 

 plants such as the vine, the olive, the almond, and the algarrobo', alter- 

 nating with irrigated Huertas with their almost endless variety of products. 

 Intermediate between the two are iields devoted to the culture of 

 cereals, for the province of Valencia possessed, in 1906, 86,000 acres 

 under wheat, of which 56,000 were irrigated, xo,ooo acres under oats^. 

 and over 25,000 acres under barley, the last two being almost exclusively 

 grown 1)11 unirrigated land. It is, howe\er, Castellon and ^lurcia, more 

 especially the latter, which are the principal wheat producing provinces 

 in the I.evante in which region 516,000 acres were sown in 1906 yielding 

 nearly 7,000,000 bushels of wheat. The 56,000 acres of irrigated wheat 

 in the province of Valencia yielded, in 1906, a little over 2,000,000' 

 bushels, or an average of over 35 bushels per acre. 



ROMAN THEATRE AT SAGUNTO (mURVIEDRO). 



The region is a beautiful and attractive one but one which oddly 

 enough appears to have so far remained almost undiscovered by tourists. 

 This seems strange, as for climatic advantages and varied interest it has 

 quite as much to recommend it as the far famed Riviera in S.-E. France. 

 At Sagunto, one finds the Saguntum of the ancients, the .scene of the 

 celebrated siege by Hannibal which led to the second Punic war. The 

 castle is situated on a high hill, close lo the village, and, though little 

 remains of the walls which existed in Hannibal's time, owing to fierce 

 fighting and much rebuilding by Romans. Moors, and Christians, and 

 more recently still by the French under Napoleon, it is an historical 

 monument of deep interest. It has for many vears been known a.s^ 

 Murviedro, but a slight modification of the original name has recently 

 been reverted to. Among its many relics of great antiquity is a very 

 fine Roman theatre in very good state of preserwition of which a photo- 

 graph is here reproduced. On the lower land tetween the castle and 

 the sea are large plantations of olives and vineyards, remarkable as 

 being an exception to the usual rule of limiting these crops to drv un- 

 irrigabie lands. The photograph shows olives and vines lieing submitted' 

 to winter irrigation, an unusual sight in the region. 



