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APPENDICES. 



APPENDIX I. (See p. 25.) 

 Extract from Letter from Mr. Sheriff ' JBoothhy ', of South Australia. 



Sheriff's Office, Adelaide, 



26th December, 1871. 



Dear Sir, 



I am glad to learn that the Acclimatization Society is taking an 

 interest in Olive planting, and that you are about sending to Europe for the 

 best varieties. I venture to suggest, as the best mode of raising trees, the 

 planting of seedling stocks and grafting the year after, about one inch under 

 the ground (cleft grafting) with approved scions. In this way you get a per- 

 fectly formed tree, and one more likely to ensure success. I have paid for 

 experience. The bark of an Olive is too thin to succeed well with budding or 

 grafting above ground. The varieties we have planted came many years ago 

 from the neighbourhood of Marseilles, and were imported by the South 

 Australian Company. 



I have not any seedling plants, but Captain Simpson, of Glen Osmond, 

 has the oldest plantation here, and has generally a good number springing 

 up, without any care, underneath the old trees. I used these — planted them 

 out, when about three inches high, in the place where they were to stand, in 

 trenched ground. Then, next year, grafted them with scions as above, from 

 the Marseilles varieties, selecting those that appeared to thrive best in this 

 climate. The " Verdale" I think the best on the whole, and is thought also 

 to be the best by Mr. Davenport, a gentleman who takes much interest also 

 in the Olive, and has a plantation. Sir J ohn Morphet has the Spanish ; 

 these succeed very well, and produce a larger berry than the French kinds. 

 I have some of these also, but cannot move them. 



We commenced planting about ten years ago, and have now a large 

 number of trees growing, and coming, most of them, into bearing. 



I have sent to Paris for several French works on the Olive and oil 

 making. Mr. Davenport, when he was last in Europe, took Busby's book 

 with him, and went over the same ground and visited the Olive yards 

 and manufactories in the south of France, bringing back much useful 

 information. 



I shall be glad to aid, in any way that I can, and shall feel obliged by an 

 occasional exchange of information on this subject. 



Believe me to be, dear Sir, 



Yours very truly, 



W. E. BOOTHBY, 



Lewis A. Bernays, Esq., F.L.S., 



Vice-President, &c, &c, &c. 



