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Walnuts grow well in the hill districts where there is running water 
and the climate is not too hot. They are exceedingly fine trees aud the 
fruit is fairly goo 
azel nuts are grown largely in the district known as Pitzillia; they 
much care to do well. The ground should be broken up round the 
roots every spring and the trees irrigated until the crop is gathered. 
erries grow plentifully in the Marathassa valley at a height of 
more than 4,000 feet above the sea-level, but the fruit is e of good 
q 
Apples are only grown in any quantity in the village of Prodromo, 
4,500 feet — the sea-level; they are of inferior quality and only fit 
for cookin 
ars are only grown in any quantity at present about 3,500 feet 
above sea- -Jevdl The € E is not good. Fairly good pears can 
however be grown in the pla 
Quinces are grown in fair mumbers and are of good quality. 
Bananas are cultivated in the towns in private gardens, but not to 
any great extent; they seldom come into the market. The Paplios 
r e 
JMelons are grown largely in most gardens s; he quality is iem d good 
i eed. 
Prickly Pears grow abundantly in sy low e untry ; they furnish 
useful fences. The fruit is good. The st Oe is equal to the local 
ort 
Dates are only grown in a few pa aces, and are generally a an inferior 
quality. The dates consumed in the island a are "— impor 
Besides the above fruits, medlars are gro ut are m y em they 
are all consumed locally, and the genit is iae 
Strawberries ur grow if properly attended to ; Pie an insignificant 
number is grown in the island. 
Capers grow ‘wild i in the hills. They are Acids in a rough way by 
the inhabitants. It seems likely that di cultivation and proper atten- 
tion an export trade might be established 
All the fruits of Cyprus are capable of be being produced in much larger 
quantities than at present, and there is also no doubt that the quality of 
most of the fruit might be greatly improved ; but this will not be done 
until the subject of fruit-growing is much better understood than it 
generally is at present. The Cypriots make most excellent jam and 
preserved fruits, but little or none of these come into the market; house- 
holds, as a rule, making only for themselves. I think it would be well 
worth while for someone, who understands the business, to consider 
whether a manufactory of marmalade and jam, especially apricot jam, 
sz not be worked here with profit. 
ruit trade is to be developed, which I believe to be quite possible, 
it would be necessary to provide better means of communication within 
ie island, and better, quicker, and, above all, more regular communica- 
tion with coun 
.. A. F. G. Law, Principal Forest Officer. — 
