124 FRUIT RECIPES 



thought to have health-giving elements. To-day only 

 certain chemical extracts (prepared chiefly in France) 

 call forth healing power from the leaves and in such prep- 

 arations are sometimes given in fevers, but the gum is 

 used almost entirely for perfumery where used at all, as 

 among the Italians. 



There is a species of American olive, The Devil-wood, 

 {Olea Americana), which grows wild in some of the more 

 southern states, which has a flower attractive for its sweet 

 scent, and its fruit is considered fit subject for pickling. 



Save the wild crab apple blossom the sweet or Fragrant 

 Olive (piea fragrans or Osmanthus fragrans) of Japan and 

 China, has no rival in the botanical world in . delicate yet 

 distinctly penetrating and rarely exquisite fragrance. 



