The variety of its fruit-trees has been already noticed.
The flavor of their produce is in general good, and in some cases surpassingly excellent.

No quinces are so fine as those of Isfahan, and no melons have a more delicate flavor.

The grapes of Kasvin are celebrated, and make a remarkably good wine.
Among the flowers of the country must be noted, first of all, its roses, which flourish in the most luxuriant abundance, and are of every variety of hue.

The size to which the tree will grow is extraordinary, standards sometimes exceeding the height of fourteen or fifteen feet.

Lilacs, jasmines, and many other flowering shrubs are common in the gardens, while among wild flowers may be noticed hollyhocks, lilies, tulips, crocuses, anemones, lilies of the valley, fritillaries, gentians, primroses, convolvuluses, chrysanthemums, heliotropes, pinks, water-lilies, ranunculuses, jonquils, narcissuses, hyacinths, mallows, stocks, violets, a fine campanula (Michauxia levigata), a mint (Nepeta longiflora), several sages, salsolas, and fagonias.