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EXPOETS FEOM ODESSA. 



A table of the exportation of grains, seeds, wools, and stuffs from the port of Odessa in 1869. 



Tclietverts — Tschetwerts = 5. 95205 bushels. Poud — Pud = 36. 06764 pounds. 



POMOLOGY m WUETBMBEEG. 



C. Scliickler, president of the Horticultural Society " Flora," sends to 

 tlie department the following statement relative to pomology in Wur- 

 temberg : 



Wurteniberg may be called one of the largest fruit-growing countries in Europe. 

 In very good and prosperous fruit years, as will happen once or oftener in every 

 decennium, (1860, 1864, 1869,) the crop amounts to from three to four hundred weight 

 of fruit for every head of our population. The very perceptible saving in cereals and 

 otfher provisions during such years reduces their prices, increases the export, and has 

 caused our farmer's adage : " Cheap times come out of the ivood." 



Our fruit cultivation pervades every district. The orchards increase in number and 

 size every year, not only in the river valleys but on the hill slopes and mountains, so 

 that you may now see fine and remunerative orchards two thousand and two thousand 

 four hundred feet above tide-water, where it was formerly thought that no fruit could 

 prosper. 



The most fruitful sections are found along the shores of the Neckar, north of the 

 Alb, and generally on the northern and northeastern slopes of the hills, which prove 

 most propitious for fruit. 



According to official statistics, as far as obtainable, there were in Wurtemberg dur- 

 ing the year 1852, of seed fruit, 5,000,000 trees, with a yearly crop of 8,000,000 hundred 

 weight of fruit ; and of stone fruit, 3,500,000 trees, with 2,000,000 hundred weight of 

 fruit. Since then the number of trees has increased very much. In some districts 

 there are from eighty thousand to one hundred thousand fruit trees upon a square 

 mile. The city of Stuttgart counts upon a horticultural area of five thousand four 

 hundred and forty-five acres, about one hundred and ten thousand fruit trees. The 

 crops in different years vary from 590,000 to 19,400,000 sei, (three sei per hundred 



