Excerpts from the Introduction: The growing of almonds in the countries of the Mediterranean Basin dates back to pre-historic times. They are grown in all of the Mediterranean countries as far north as latitude 45 degrees, but chiefly along the east coast of Italy in and about Foggia and Bari, along the east and south coast of Spain and from Barcelona to Malaga, and particularly in the Islands of Sicily, Majorca and Iviza. It will be noted that the statistics in this report for both Italy and Spain are given as shelled and unshelled almonds.
