GROWING' OLIVES FROM CUTTINGS 



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Large Cuttings. There are two chief methods of propagating 

 the olive from cuttings now practiced in California. One uses 

 well-matured wood, and the other young wood which has just 

 passed out of the herbaceous state. Practice with hard wood 

 proceeds by taking cuttings of sound wood about a foot long and 

 one-half to one inch in diameter, and rooting them as already 

 described for vine cuttings, in Chapter XXVI. These large cut- 

 tings sometimes remain dormant for a year or more, and recent 

 propagation has been almost exclusively by the small-cutting 

 method. 



Manner of Rooting of small olive cuttings. 



Small Cuttings. Propagating by small cuttings has increased 

 rapidly during the last few years. It serves an excellent purpose 

 in rapid multiplication of the new varieties which are being secured 



