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is more than can be said of the raisin industry. Some years back the phyl- 

 loxera destroyed the Sultana vineyards of Smyrna. At present all the vine- 

 yards are grafted on American stock, and it appeared to me that the young 

 growth that I was at the time able to observe was very far from showing 

 that healthy, vigorous appearance so characteristic of the same variety in 

 South Australia. 





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Secular Oriental Plane Tr33 at Brusi (Asia-Minor), 5Jfi. in Circumferanca at 5ft. from 



the Ground Level. 



Whilst in the neighborhood of Constantinople I had occasion to visit Brusa, 

 the first capital city of the Ottoman Empire. The whole of the neighboring 

 country appears to be almost entirely given up to the silkworm industry, 

 fully three-fourths of the population being, it is stated, either directly or 

 indirectly interested. Plantations of mulberry trees are exceedingly numerous. 

 These trees are either intermingled with olive trees or vines, or more 



