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[TRANSLATION.] 



EXAMINATION OF THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF 

 TRIPOLI OLIVES. 



The writer, who visited Tripoli as a member of the recent 

 Scientific Agricultural Commission which travelled through the 

 new Italian Colony, refers in his memorandum to the studies 

 carried out with respect to the varieties of olives cultivated by 

 the dry method in Northern Tripoli and more particularly in 

 that region which goes by the native name of " Gebel." 



After some preliminary information on the distribution and 

 cultivation of the olive in Tripoli and on the importance which 

 this plant has at present in places where irrigation cannot be 

 economically carried out, the writer refers to the analytical 

 data which he has obtained by studying the varieties of olives 

 in Msellata and Garian, which are the most important districts 

 in the whole of Tripoli from the point of view of the cultivation 

 of the olive. Morphological data with respect to the foliage, 

 notes on the yield, relations between the kernel of the fruit and 

 the pulp, various measurements of olives, etc., are given in the 

 paper. Quite twenty-six varieties of Tripoli olives have been 

 examined by the writer. 



No accurate identifications of the different varieties are 

 arrived at in this work, as the little knowledge we have at 

 present of the agriculture of the district is not sufficient for 

 definitely classifying the several kinds of olives cultivated on 

 the high plateau of Tripoli. 



The researches already commenced with respect to the said 

 varieties, for which the names used by the natives are retained, 

 signify, however, a first and notable contribution to, and the 

 first necessary step for, a complete study to be carried out 

 hereafter. 



The following papers were taken as read : 



RISULTATI ANALITICI DI ALCUNE RICERCHE SUGLI OLI 



TRIPOLINI. 



Per Dott. ALESSANDRO MORESCHINI. 

 [ABSTRACT.] 



DaU'esame di 26 campioni di olive e di 3 di oli provenienti 

 da diverse regioni della Tripolitania, risulta che : 



i. II contenuto in estratto etereo greggio delle polpe di 

 olive vario da 17 a 49*31 per cento di polpe secche. 



