. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 140 HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. I. the finest in the East; and no grape is more delicious than that of Shiraz. In die p
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 140 HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. I. the finest in the East; and no grape is more delicious than that of Shiraz. In die pro- vinces bordering on the Caspian Sea and Mount Caucasus, the air is perfumed with roses and other sweet-scented flowers. Among the vegetable productions we may enumerate cabbages, cucumbers, turnips, carrots, peas, and beans; and the potato, which has been lately introduced, thrives remarkably well. Poppies, from which an excellent opium is extracted, senna, rhubarb, saffron, and assafoetida are produced in many parts of the king- dom. The vine grows here luxuriantly, and further to the south cotton and sugar are articles of common cidtivation. Poplars, large and beautiful, and the weeping willow, border the courses of the streams, and the marshy tracts abound with the kind of rush that serves for the Persian matting. Ornamental shrubs or herbaceous plants are little known j but the jasmine and the blue and scarlet anemone in the thickets, and the tulip and ra- nunculus in the pastures, are abundant and beautiful, and give an air of elegance to the country. 870. The saline deserts of Persia are for the most part destitute of trees, and support hardly any plants except such as are also found on the sea-shore. On the high moun- tains they are much the same as those observed on the alps of Switzerland and Italy. The plants on the hills and plains adjoining the Caspian are better known. 871. The live stock of Persia is the same as in European countries with some addi- tions. Ac
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