From 1783 to 1825 agricultural produce was exported and coal imported.
Glass-cutting was a craft imported from Germany, but the English material so greatly surpassed Bohemian glass in brilliance that the Bohemian cut-glass was eclipsed.
Anthracnose has been known in Europe for many years, but has only been observed in America since 1881, whither it was probably imported from the old world.
Among the most successful of the imported trees are citrus trees, the Australian wattle and the eucalyptus.
Whether originally imported from Europe by the Portuguese or brought from the north by Africans is not certain.
