Photo, Olufsen
COTTON FIELDS UNDER IRRIGATION FROM THE AMU DARIA
In the direction of cereal production there are two harvests. One, reaped in summer, is the result of an autumn sowing and includes wheat, barley and certain varieties of peas and beans. The second harvest is gathered in autumn from a spring sowing, and embraces crops, rice, Indian corn, millet, arzun and jowari, besides other grains of less importance. In addition to these cereals, crops of madder, tobacco, cotton, opium, hemp, clover and lucerne are very generally cultivated. Clover and lucerne are produced for fodder, hemp for its intoxicating properties and madder, tobacco, cotton and opium for export. In relation to the other crops, wheat is the food of the people, barley and jowari are given to horses, and arzun and Indian corn are grown for culinary purposes.
In greater detail the distribution of the vegetation is as follows:
On the main range of the Safed Koh there are—
- Cedrus deodara, the Deodar.
- Abies excelsa, Norway Spruce.
- Pinus longifolia, Turpentine Pine.
- P. pinaster, Cluster Pine.
- P. pinea, the Edible Pine.
- Larix communis, Larch.
- Citrus limonum, Lemon.
- Yew, Taxus baccata.
- Hazel, Corylus avellana.
- Juniper, Juniperus communis.
- Walnut, Juglans regia.
- Wild peach, Amygdalus persica.
- Almond, Amygdalus communis.
- Wild vine, Vitis vinifera.
Protected by these there flourish several varieties of—
- Rose, Rosa canina.
- Honeysuckle, Lonicera (caprifolium).
- Currant, Ribes rubrum.
- Gooseberry, Ribes grossularia.
- Hawthorn, Cratægus oxyacantha.
- Rhododendron, Rhododendron arboreum.