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of the State University, at Berkeley, California, wrote : — 

 " The olive will grow in a soil too dry even for a grape- 

 vine, and too rocky for any other fruit tree ; the hills 

 and mountain slopes not fit for the pasture of even a 

 goat can be made to produce olives ; precisely such will 

 produce the fruit much earlier than the rich valleys. 

 It has often been said that the olive is the poor man's 

 tree. That oil and pickles of the finest quality can be 

 produced in this State cannot be questioned, as Ellwood 

 Cooper, of Santa Barbara, has taken the prize at the 

 Paris World's Fair." 



At a meeting of the State Board of Horticulture, 

 Mr. Ellwood Cooper said : — I have growing on my 

 place olive trees in black adobe, in deep bottom land, 

 in sandy land made from the wash of the mountains, in 

 stony hillsides, in adobe hillsides, and in table land 

 where the subsoil is probably twenty feet deep, dark 

 clav, and so far as I have known there is no difference 

 in the bearing of these trees, or in the oil made. I 

 plant twenty feet apart, and do not irrigate. As to 

 profit, I am planting olives and no other fruit tree." 



The pickled olives brought to this country from 

 Europe are put up green, and are fit to be used only 

 as a condiment, while the more mature California pro- 

 duct is a nourishing food much preferred to the foreign 

 article, and growing in favour from year to year, the 

 demand being greater than the supply, which is entirely 

 exhausted in a few weeks after being put upon the home 

 market. 



The Department of Agriculture at Washington a few 

 years ago made chemical tests of sixty-six samples of 

 imported olive oil, and not a single sample was found 



