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STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



INTRODUCED VARIETIES. 



The following varieties have been introduced into the State 

 and some have been planted to a considerable extent. Those 

 so far as known to the writer are described briefly, with 

 comments: 



WILD TYPE DWARF TREES. 



Tree semi-dwarf, very showy, small branches, robust and 

 erect. Fruit of varying size, with very little flesh; valuable 

 for stocks. 



SEMI-WILD TYPE MEDIUM TREES. 



Redding Picholine. The first olive trees imported to this 

 State was in 1872, by the late B. B. Redding, from France. 



"1 These were of the 

 Picholine variety. 

 On the voyage the 

 tops of the trees 

 froze down below 

 the graft. They were 

 planted in two lots 

 in Sacramento, and 

 most of them grew. 

 The shoots that came 

 up were all from 

 below the graft, and 

 were widely dis- 

 tributed throughout 

 the State for propa- 

 gating purposes, un- 

 der the impression 

 that it was the true 

 Picholine. These 

 produced, instead of 

 a large berry, which 

 the Picholine is, a 

 small olive having 

 characteristics of the 

 wild olive. wild species. In 1888 



I named it as above, to distinguish it from the true Picholine, 

 a variety which it does not resemble, in either tree or fruit. 



