726 FRUIT CULTURE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Of the crop of 1882-'83 there were exported to — 



CraUoua. 



England 3,300.000 



Russia 1,100,000 



Austria 750,000 



Germany 275,000 



Turkey ■ 577,000 



Egypt 412,500 



Syria 137,500 



Anatolia. 357,500 



Barbary - 192.500 



Other places 75,000 



7,177,500 



Owing to the excellent quality and the low price of the oil produced 

 in Prance that season, there was almost none exported to that country. 

 The local consumption of Crete amounted to 3,272,500 gallons, and the 

 soap works on the island absorbed about 2,200,000 gallons. Considera- 

 ble stock remains on the island. The sellers who know that a good crop • 

 is always followed by a bad one prefer to hold their oils in the expecta- 

 tion of a rise in prices, which can not fail to come. At the commence- 

 ment of the olive harvest, oil was selling at $1.39 to $1 .41 the 2^ gallons, 

 while on the 1st of March last it was quoted at f 1.G7. In London the 

 oil is selling at this date at $174.66 per ton weight, gross. 



G. H. Heap, 



Consul- General. 



United States Consulate, 



Constantinople, April 10, 1884. 



DARDANELLES. 



REPOBT Br OONSULAM J.QENT OALYEBT. 



Varieties. — The best varieties are the Eoi)adhes. There are a few 

 other varieties, but they are little cultivated. 



Trees. — The trees are grown all over the district, but principally in 

 the Gulf of Adramytium, and from sea edge to some miles inland, at 

 an elevation from sea-level, say, to 1,000 feet. 



Situation and soil. — Wild olive trees generally aftect sunny exposure. 

 All situations but rocky sheltered valleys give the best fruit and most 

 oil ; clay and light soils, with rock or deep subsoil. 



Temperature. — Earely above 90° or below 5° Fahrenheit. 



Rain-fall. — Thirty inches per annum. The olive crop is uucertaiu and 

 does not appear to be much influenced by greater or less fall of rain. 



Fertilizers. — Not used except when new plantations are made. Water, 

 if required, is a])plie(l by hand. 



Cultivation. — When practicable the ground is plowed between the 

 trees and grain crops raised ; more frequently iu rocky situations. The 



