iv. 



0. 



Oil, in what part of the Fruit found, 12. 



Oilcake, 43, 62. 



Oil, Extraction of, 51 to 56. 



,, Use of, for lighting, 43. 



„ „ „ lubricating, 43. 



„ „ ,, Soap making, 43. 

 „ in Cookery, 17, 42, 52. 



„ „ ,, Manufacture of Cloth, 42, 43. 

 „ Surgery, 43. 

 Olea Europsea, 11. 



Oleacece, Natural order of the Olive, 11. 

 Oleine, 44. 



" Olive Plants about thy Table," supposed origin of saying, 71. 

 Olive, the Common, Description, Habitat, &c, 11. 

 Orange, Olive compared with the, 17. 



P, 



Palmitine, 44. 



Permanency, 15, 16. 



Picholines, 19, 40, 41, 42. 



Pickles, Use of Olives as, 39. 40, 41, 42, 70. 



Pliny, Appliances in days of, 45. 



„ Process of Grafting described by, 26. 

 ,, Opinion as to Temperature for Pressing, 53. 

 Portugal, Cultivation in, 12, 13. 



„ Mode of pickling Olives in, 41. 

 Press, Use and various Eorms of, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49. 

 Pressing, Process of, 51 to 56. * 

 ' Privet ' of same natural order, 12. 

 Propagation by Cuttings, 23. 



Grafting, 25, 66, 67, 69. 

 „ Layers, 23. 



„ Root Cuttings, 23. 



„ Seedlings, 24. 



,, Suckers, 24. 



Truncheons, 26, 27, 28, 69. 

 Uovoli, 29, 68. 

 Proverbs founded on the Olive, 15, 16. 

 Pruning, 33, 68. 

 Purification, 56 to 60. 



a. 



Quincunx Method of Planting, 35, 68. 



R. 



Receipt for preparing Seeds for Sowing, 24. 



Receipts for pickling Fruit, 40, 41, 42. 



Receiver, Form of, 48. 



Refining, 48, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60. 



Reservoirs, 55. 



Resin, Olive, Use of, 39. 



Returns, 16. 



Ricci, Dr. Eugenio, Letter from, 68. 



