O'Neill describes the plethora of gardens that occupied space in the river valleys of southern Crimea. This area, the Salgir valley, seems to have been especially well known for its orchards, from which merchants in “Simferopol sent 1,000 wagons of apples and 5,000 bins of pears each to Moscow, Kherson, Kharkov, and other provinces.” The productivity of the land was such that it placed this region into a trade network that traversed Russia and added value to these properties that was widely known and recognized far outside the region. O’Neill notes that Moscow merchants were eager to lease these estates, and often paid great prices to do so. On this map, we see this productive, agricultural land demarcated by areas covered with regularly spaced hatches, identical to the pattern used to mark the vineyards of Sudak. (O’Neill, 255)