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the young shoots. In a more southern latitude 

 they would be secure in the winter, but they 

 would languish through a sultry summer, 

 unrefreshed by the healthful breezes which 

 they respire on the shores of the Mediterra- 

 nean Sea : they would , besides , find a sili- 

 cious instead of a calcarious soil. 



But with all these disadvantages, tracts 

 uniting the conditions necessary for the 

 growth of the Olive may probably be found, 

 sufficiently extensive for our wants. The pos- 

 sibility of its flourishing on our shores has 

 been demonstrated by at least one experi- 

 ment. 1 While the Floridas were -held by the 

 English, an adventurer of that nation led a 

 colony of Greeks into the eastern province , 



! Mr. Warden has obligingly pointed out to me* proofs 

 of its existence, before the middle of the last century, in 

 other parts of the United States : See Burton's British 

 Empire in America; l)u Pratz's History of Louisiana; 

 American Husbandry, by an American, etc. The last men- 

 tioned author asserts that it thrives well in the interior 

 parts of Georgia. "The Olives of Louisiana, says Du 

 Pralz, are of surprising beauty; the Provencal settlers 

 affirm that they yield as good oil as in their own country, 

 and the prepared fruit is found equal to that of Provence." 



