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ing plants. The total yearly production of the 
province of Kazanlik is from 3,500 to 6,000 pounds, 
the product of 1866, but in 1872 only 1,700 pounds 
could be obtained. When distillation is over, the 
farmers come to the great commercial centres of 
Constantinople and Adrianople to sell their 
products. 
Unfortunate Kazanlik! ravaged by the horrors 
of war ; in place of quiet villages reposing in the 
valleys of the Balkans, presents at this time 
(1877) a scene of ruin and devastation ; the dwell- 
ings of the inhabitants, the churches of the 
Christians, and the mosques of the Moslem, are 
now heaps of smouldering ruins. The Rose 
cultivators slaughtered, fled, or suffering from 
pestilence and famine; the Rose gardens, once so 
delightful, are now overrun by hordes of Musco- 
vite soldiers, or serve as pens for the horses of 
the Cossack. 


