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to be pure ; one sample contained only fonr per cent, 

 olive oil. 



There is no donbt tliat tlie olive tree will thrive and 

 pay large profits on a great variety of onr cheap lands 

 near the coast and inland, requiring bnt little irrigation, 

 in many localities none : that the crop may be handled 

 at a time when other fruits do not require attention, 

 and by the average man. even without previous ex- 

 perience, with cheap and simple apparatus ; that the 

 home-grown pickles are better than the imported, aiid 

 the home-made oil superior to the foreign, and if kept 

 up to its present standard of puritv and excellence 

 will have not only our own country but the world for a 

 market. 



AYith these facts in view it is not strange that saga- 

 cious and far-seeing men are beginning to engage in 

 this profitable industry. 



Tlie Olive in Southern California. 



In establishing ]\Iissions in California, the Fathers 

 also planted the olive — a variety knovm in Spain as 

 the Cornicabra but here called the Mission) was set 

 out. Considering the long years of neglect, these old 

 groves, especially those at San Diego and San Fer- 

 nando, are in a remarkable state of usefulness. Several 

 years ago one of the trees at tlte San Ditgo 21is:io'Ji 

 y 'elded 150 qa.llons of o/icos ; in Ftbruary, 1888, J. S. 

 Harhison i^Janttd cuttinrjs obtained from them, and in 

 1890 one of the trees from tliose cuttings produced a 

 gallon of olices. The oil trees at San Fernando were 



