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Agriculture of Denmark. 
agricultural products of the Danish monarchy for the six years 
1854-1859, then the separate export to Great Britain and Ireland 
before and after 1845, and finally, that for the six years 1854- 
1859. 
Garden Cultuke. — Except on the larger properties little 
attention is paid to gardening. In the northern and western 
districts of Jutland even fruit-trees are rarely met with. In a 
few places the yeomen farmers seem to feel an interest in garden- 
ing, particularly in the south of Funen and on the island of 
Taasing, where, attached to each yeoman-farm, is found an en- 
closed piece of land planted with fruit-trees, hops, and orna- 
mental flowers. In the south of the island of Sealand, and on 
Moen, the yeomen farmers cultivate a good many fruits, especi- 
ally cherries and plums. In Sleswig, by Sundeved, and on the 
island of Als, great attention is paid to fruit-trees; and here may 
be found a most excellent apple, called " Graasteen," introduced, 
from Holland or Italy by the Duke of Augustenburg, and called 
after his estate, Avhere it was first planted. 
The attention of the Danish government was long ago directed 
to this subject. Christian II. was the first who invited certain 
Dutch families to settle in the country, for instance on the 
island of Amager (near Copenhagen) ; the cultivation of vege- 
tables forms their principal occupation ; a taste for gardening is 
also visible on the island of Nordstrand (on the west coast of 
Sleswig), where these settlers have, by great labour, reared many 
fruit-trees, though the inhabitants of the marshes in Sleswig have 
in vain tried to do so. 
Woods and Forests. — Though Denmark has less woodland 
now than a century ago, yet the islands and the east coast of the 
peninsula are well supplied. At the close of the last and the 
commencement of the present century, the woods and forests 
suffered much by a general and ill-planned system of felling 
trees. Between 1764 and 1774, a great deal of crown-land, with 
the Avoods appertaining to it, was sold to private persons, who, to 
obtain large returns for their money, felled and sold the trees ; 
this lasted until 1805, when a law Avas published for the king- 
dom, compelling those who thus cut down trees to plant others 
in their place : by this law the country is secured against the 
destruction of its woods, which not only benefit it by the fire- 
wood and timber they supply, but also by the protection they 
afford, in an agricultural point of view, against storm and weather. 
No law of the kind applies to the duchies of Sleswig, Holstein, 
and Laucnburg, and the fate of the woods there is doubtful. 
According to statistical returns the woods and forests of the 
Danish monarchy cover about 880 English square miles, or 4 
per cent, of the total area of the country ; they may be thus 
