I have now spent some weeks among the growers and shippers of raisins, and will give you the result of my investigations. It is not usually an easy task to gain information in a foreign country, but I have been fortunate enough to make the acquaintance of one of the most prominent American merchants, W. C. Biven, who has done everything in his power to facilitate my investigations, giving me much valuable information in his line, also introducing me to planters and practical men, among them J. A. Marks, proprietor of the famous property La Perla—a thoroughly scientific and practical gentleman, who conducts his own place, and is conversant with all the details and practical points in raisin culture, and to whom I am much indebted for what I have learned. I must confess that my impression of the raisin district was not correct. I had always pictured to myself the Veja of Malaga, with its fertile land, the home of the raisin vineyard. This is not the case. A large portion of the moist, rich level land is in sugar cane and other crops, with only a few vineyards; on the higher and dryer portions, as well as the hill-sides, are the majority of the raisins produced.