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adapted to the Olive; and with a more intel- 

 ligent husbandry it might again become, as it 

 was in the age of Cicero, the admiration of 

 Europe. 



France is divided by agricultural writers 

 into zones, each of which is named after one 

 of its important vegetable productions, and 

 bounded towards the north by the line at 

 which this production ceases to flourish. The 

 Abbe Rozier makes four of these zones, suc- 

 ceeding each other from south to north in the 

 following order : that of the Orange-Tree, 

 which ceases at Ouliolles, near Toulon ; that 

 of the Olive , which extends to Carcassonne , 

 and of which Nismes may be taken as the ex- 

 treme boundary; that of the Vine , and that 

 of the Apple-Tree. In travelling from Tou- 

 louse to the shore of the Mediterranean, 

 along the canal of Languedoc, I first observed 

 the Olive at a little distance from Carcas- 

 sonne ; but it appeared to have ventured 

 thither only upon trial, and from the size of 

 the trees I judged them to be a recent settle- 

 ment. About Beziers, Montpellier, Aix, etc., 

 the hills in every direction are covered with 

 Olives. 



