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Imports of Plants into Greece. 



The number of pigs was returned at 59,479 ; goats at 7,550 ; 

 and poultry of all kinds at 920,397. Stock other than those 

 specified included 592 camels, 906 donkeys, 139 mules, 490 

 Angora goats, 37 deer, and 742 ostriches. 



The Board have receiv ed through the Foreign Office 

 Importation of ^ translation of a Decree, dated 4th 

 Plants into January, 1898, embodying the measures 

 Greece. taken in order to prevent the introduc- 



tion of phylloxera into Greece. By this decree it is forbidden 

 to import from any country, whether infected with 

 phylloxera or not — [a] Any parts of vines, whether fresh or 

 dry ; [b) any living plants or parts thereof ; [c] madder and 

 liquorice ; [d] stakes which have been used to support vines ;. 

 [e] vegetable or mixed manure ; or [f) vegetable soil and any 

 kind of ships' ballast consisting of pebbles, earth, or mixed 

 sand. 



Importations, under certain conditions, are only permitted 

 from Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, 

 where phylloxera does not exist. Grafts and cuttings of 

 plants (vines excepted) for agricultural experiment stations 

 may be imported through certain ports after many for- 

 malities. 



The importation of the following articles inter alia is, 

 however, permitted — viz., all kinds of dry seeds (including 

 wheat and other cereals) and of dried fruits ; dried phar- 

 maceutical plants and bark used for tanning, hay and straw, 

 as well as certain minor agricultural products. 



In the summer ot last year an exhibition of agricultural 



machinery was held at Kieff, and some 



^;r'^?^-^^^^*"i^"L. account of it is given in the Report for 

 Machinery £xhi- ^ 



bition at Kieff. 1897 on the Agriculture of the Consular 

 District of Odessa.* Although, as stated 



Foreign Office, Annual Series, No. 2,023. Price i\d. 



