Fig. 9. FLOWERS OF OLIVE. 



THE OLIVE. 



CHAPTER III. 



" There the grey Olive, year by year, 

 Yields its unfailing fruitage ; there the vine 

 Ripens, unpruned, its clusters into wine ; 

 There figs, ungrafFed, their russet harvest grow, 

 And fields, unploughed, their wealth on man bestow." 

 HORACE, tr. DE VERB. 



AN Englishman who was spending a short time on 

 the Kiviera said to me, " Those Colzas are strange- 

 looking trees." " What trees ? " I asked, feeling 

 somewhat puzzled. " The Colzas/' said he, " that 

 yield the Colza oil ; there is hardly any other tree to 

 be seen. How is it that you have been so long out 

 here and never noticed them ? " " You mean the 

 Olive ! " I exclaimed. " Nothing of the sort," he 

 replied ; " I am informed that those blue-green trees 



