Man standing next to cotton plants at the Sukhumi Botanical Gardens, between 1905 and 1915. The moderate, Mediterranean-like climate of the Black Sea region allowed cultivation of crops that would not grow in most parts of the Russian empire, such as tea and cotton. Sukhumi on the east coast of the Black Sea in what is now the northwestern part of the Republic of Georgia, had an important botanical garden and experimentation station.

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