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The production of a somewhat inferior kind of prune is also an | 
important industry in Germany. The following account is from Han- 
bury and Flückiger (pp. 252, 253). 
"W French prunes are scarce, a very similar fruit, known in 
Germany as Zwetschen or Quetschen, is imported as a substitute. It is 
the produce of a tree which most botanists regard as a form of Prunus 
domestica, L., termed by De Candolle var. Pruneauliana. K. Koch, 
Dendrologie, part i. (1869), 94, however, is decidedly of opinion that it 
is a distinct species, and as such he has revived for it Borkhausen’s name 
of Prunus ccon . The tree is widely eultivated in Germany for 
the sake of its fruit, which is dried as an article of food, but is not 
grown in Ergland 
ence. 
There is a third centre of the prune industry in south-eastern 
Europe. This is of increasing importance. 
The following account of it is taken from the General Review of the 
State of the Trade in Servia during the year 1886, by Mr. Vansittart, 
Chargé d'Affaires at the time at Belgrade (Consular and Diplomatie 
Reports on Trade and Finance, No. 176). 
Se The sum total of the value of the export of grain, fruit, and prunes in 
1886 is reckoned at 535,476/.; of this sum rather more than half repre- 
sents the value of prunes exported. In 1884 some 20,056,155 kilos., of 
a value of 274,4411. ; and in 1885 about 23,228,777 kilos, of a value of 
231,0007., were despatched from Servia, 
“ It is reckoned that one-third is exported direct to Germany, viá 
Regensburg, one-third direct to America, vid Fiume, and one-third to 
Pesth, frum which latter place prunes are sent to the various European 
mar ete, The increase in the exportation of prunes to North America, 
vid F iume, should be particularly noticed. Fiume is more advan- 
tageously situated than Trieste for this purpose; from the beginning cf 
he 1 s than 400 complete waggon-loads were exported per 
sea, and chiefly to North America. : 
“ The prune harvest for 1886 yielded in Bosnia more than a third of 
the harvest of the previous year, and can be reckoned at about 170,000 
centners ; whereas Servia yielded a good average harvest of about 
357,832 centners. Of this sum total more than three-fourths were 
orted. The q ian ware was of a very satis- 
factory nature, the product being healthy, well-dried, considerable in 
quantity, and of a durable nature. In 1885,a direct trade with Great 
can certainly be sold at a very much cheaper rate than that at present 
The real reason is, probably, 
making-up of the French “prunes impérial 
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