Abstract
Chief exported fruits Fukushima Basin are a pear: pyrus pyrifolia Nakai var Culta (Makino) Nakai. an apple: Malus Pumlia Mill. a peach: Prunus Persica Batsch, and a persimon: Diospyros Kaki Thunberg. Trucks are a hakusweetsai: Byassica Campestris L.a radish: Raphanus Acanthiformis M. and a potato: Ipomoea Batatas L. var edulis Makino.
Main markets are Tokyo, Osaka, and Hokkaido districts. A peach and persimmon which are chiefly produced in the warmer southarea than Fukushima Basin is sent to the north (Hokkaido), and an apple which is in the cooler area is sent mostly to the south (Tokyo and Osaka). A spinach is exported for Hokkaido and a hakusai for Tokyo. Trucks for Osaka is quite little. As these, in Fukushima Basin, there are many sorts of fruits and trucks, and different sorts of them are exported for each market of the south and north. Thus, Fukushima Basin does not depend upon a single market. And all the year round the exports and trucks continue.
This character of Fnkushima Basin is, I think, as one factor, due to its location. It is located in the southern part of Tohoku Province which extends from south to north, and in the most northern of Tosando climaticregion, -the most continental climate in Japan-. This site would have afforded it the existing of many sorts of fruits-trees and truck-vegetables.
