THE OLIVE 



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Asia. 



Olea, salicifolia, Inffia. 

 dioiea, '' 



euspidata, Afghanistan, 

 compacta, India, 

 acuminata, longifolia, India, 

 roxbiirohiana, India, eastern, 

 lieyneana, " 



glandulifera, Xepaul, India, 

 acuminata, " 



Europea ; North Asia Minor, Syria, Kurdistan, 

 Transcaucasia, Xorth Persia, southern coast of 

 Caspian sea, the southeast of Arabian penin- 

 suhi. 



u 



a 

 a 

 u 

 u 



u 

 u 



Europe. 



^ Olea Europea ; the Mediterranean coast and PortugaL 



The Olea Americana is known to the himhermen of the Carolinas 

 and Florida as devil- wood, the grain of the wood being so hard as to 

 resist ordinary tools. 



The berrv of the Olea Fra(irans of China is candied and used 

 among the Chinese as a sweet, and the flowers to flavor and adulter- 

 ate the finer kinds of teas. 



The above enumeration is given cliiefly as a curiositv. The spe- 

 cies of interest to us is tlu^ Olea Europea, this being the onlv vari- 

 ety that has as vet re])aid man's care bv the increased size and 



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Tveight of its berry. (See Plate I). 



The olive (Olea Etiropca of Linneus), according to De Candolle, 

 belongs to oi'der CXXVII of the Oicaceae, to the tribe III of the 

 Oleineae, to the genus VI, Olea,. to the species X. 2, Euro])ea, and 

 was so called bv Linneus to indicate that its home is there, that 

 there it is cultivated by choice and has l)(n,Mi held in honor from 

 remotest antiquity. Some considei' the name inap[)ropriate on the 

 ground that the olive was brouglit from Asia, but Caruso holds it 

 to be correct because he ]3e!iev(\s it to l)e a native of Europe and 

 the culture, only, brouglit from Asia. 



We pro])Ose now to endeavor to classify the varieties of the Olea 

 Europea in a brief and compiehensive manner. 



It is evident that great confusion exists in the nomenclature of 



