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INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 



(The author is much indebted to Mr. Thomas McLeod, one of the 

 masters of the Brisbane Grammar School, for the excellent manner in which 

 the drawings were prepared for the stone.) 



Plate A. — The Olive. — A branch shewing the fruit and flowers. 



Plate B. — "Knaurs" or Embryo Buds. To illustrate the "Uovoli" of the 

 Olive tree. (See page 29.) 



Plate C. — Labor-saving implements for keeping the surface of the soil open 

 and clean. — Hay ns worth's Garden Cultivator, an American 

 patent. 



Plate D. — Hoe for keeping down the weeds between the rows of trees. 



Plate E.-^-Olive Mill and Building at Corfu, from sketch made on the spot 

 in 1863. (Reproduced from a Paper on the cultivation of 

 the Olive, read by the Hon. Samuel Davenport before the 

 Chamber of Manufactures, Adelaide, South Australia, on 

 19th July, 1870.) 



Plate F. — Oil Press used in the above Mill. (See Illustration E.) 

 Plate G. — Stone Oil- Mill, at Almunecar, Spain. 

 Plate H. — Oil Press, at Almunecar, Spain. 



Plate I. — Tin Skimmer, used for skimming off the oil from the receiver, 

 and pouring into the tinajas at Malaga. 



Plate J. — " Tinajas," or earthenware jars, used for storing oil at Malaga. 



Plate K. — " Florentine Receiver," used by the Hon. Samuel Davenport, of 

 Adelaide, South Australia. The Receiver is built of slabs of 

 slate cemented, in the absence of marble. Each chamber 

 holds 40 gallons. The oil comes from tap c like new honey. 

 The object of the second chamber is that tap c can be left to 

 run all night ; a and b are draining-off taps. The waste pipe 

 is below the level of the receiver, as the receiver never over- 

 flows ; out of this the fruit water (the waste of the press) 

 flows, leaving the oil on the top of the fluid in the receiver 

 Mr. Davenport is of opinion that much labor is saved by 

 adopting this structure. 



Plate L. — One form of Mill used in Spain. 



Plate M.-- Ancient Oil Mill and Presses. (From Dr. Thomson's " The 

 Land and the Book.") 



Plate N. — Sieuve's Method of extracting Olive Oil. From a work pub- 

 lished in Padova, in 1819. The primary object of this method 

 is to separate the pulp from the kernel of the Olives ; these 

 are then pressed by another separate process. Plate 1ST 

 represents the above machine ; figure 1, as seen front and 

 sideways ; figure 2, in its perpendicular section. 



