Varieties of the Olive. 347 
be a large pickling variety. It has produced oil of good quality. The 
smallness of the fruit is its irremediable defect. 
Oblonga—Imported by John Rock from France. An olive of a pe- 
culiar, club-like shape, being narrow at the stem end, broad at the point, 
rounded and strongly oblique; generally pointed at both ends. The pulp 
Manzanillo Grown by G. C. Roeding, Fresno. (Reduced.) 
loses its bitterness comparatively quickly in pickling. This olive ripens 
quite early—at least two to three weeks earlier than the Broad-leaved 
Mission; color, dark purple: 
Pendoulier.—Large, oval, slightly curved at apex end; very desirable 
