{"book":"adl0957","page":74,"text":"51\n\nFruits\n\nThe Afghans are a fruit-loving people, and the dry summer\nconditions of the country play a great rôle in the development of\nthis industry, for which Afghanistan has acquired world-wide\nfame. One encounters beautiful gardens and orchards through-\nout the country, where conditions are favourable. The lowland\nof Jalalabad is famous for some fine species of citrus fruits.\nGreat varieties of deciduous fruits, such as apricots, peaches, plums\npears, and apples, as well as almonds, figs, pomegranates, mulber-\nries, walnuts and pistachios grow well in higher altitudes. Several\nkinds of grapes, from pure white to dark black, in different sizes,\nshapes and flavours are found in different parts of the country,\nbut especially in the districts of Kandahar, Herat and Koh\nDaman.\n\nThe wild fruit trees and shrubs play by no means an\nunimportant part in the nourishment of the people and foreign\ntrade of the country. Of these, pistachios occupies the first\nplace, this being a product of the northern districts-from Herat\nto Kataghan. The pistachio tree generally grows on the loess\nhillocks.\n\nIn south-western Afghanistan and in the forest zones of\nthe eastern and southern provinces, different species of\nhawthorns, blackberries and current bushes are found in great\nnumbers. Whole thickets of barberry cover the river valleys of\nthe high mountains round Badakhshan and Nuristan. The nuts\nof the edible pine (pignolia or Jalghoza as it is locally called) are\nalso one of the chief articles of food, and large quantities are\nexported abroad. Besides, the country is extremely rich in\nsome medicinal plants, but so far only a few of them are made\nuse of,","chars":1661,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00074.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/74","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/74","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}