The gardens at Odessa, though requiringmuch care in their infancy, yet are afterwards very productive: the dryness of the soil and climate makes a long preparation requisite for the planting of trees ; but having once taken root, they soon begin to bear, and yield abundantly. As a proof of this abundance, the prices of fruit the preceding year was mentioned at Mr. Yeames's table, as follow : Cherries gathered, six rubles per pood ; thecommon sort three rubles per pood. Apricots twelve rubles per pood ; of these there are from nine to twelve to the pound. Peaches ten for sixty kopeeks. Grapes twenty to thirty kopeeks per pound, but were then very dear. Pears fifty kopeeks per pound, two or three large Beurre pears to a pound. Apples are sometimes twenty-two inches round; those of the Crimea are the finest in flavour I have ever tasted, very similar to that we call the Ripston pippin, but with the flavour of the pine-apple. Some ofthe most opulent inhabitants have houses or gardens in the country, a few versts from the town. There are some of these places very pretty, and they are resorted to as places of pleasure and amusement. The luxuriance of the soil and climate may be ascertained by stating, that a tree grafted in November, will frequently bear the succeeding summer ; the second year they are sure of fruit ; and the third it is in full bearing.
As we now appeared to be drawing nigh to the close ofour long and tedious journey, I was glad to take leave of Odessa, and be once more on the road, feeling confident that we should now meet with no material cause of detention.