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the tops of fennel. * To preserve them ripe, they are salted, a layer 

 of salt being put between a layer of olives. Another way of preserv- 

 ing them is with oil and vinegar ; a third in syrup or must, called 

 petmez ; the must is the juice of the grape boiled before fermentation 

 to the consistence of a syrup ; or lastly, simply in salt and water, the 

 usual method adopted by the peasants. TJie green olives dipped in 

 salt and water, are called ^oXv^dhg. -f 



A fourth sort is T^ayoXta, or the goat olive; this produces very 

 hard fruit, and is little cultivated. 



A fifth sort lTpa/2oA(a (crooked) is so called from the fruit, which is 

 long, having the point a little curved. It ripens the latest, and re- 

 mains longest on the tree ; is gathered when quite ripe, and preserved 

 as one of the former. 



A sixth sort T&fttoMvd is termed so from the resemblance of the 

 olive to a lemon, having a nipple-shaped fruit, of the size of a wal- 

 nut. It is indeed the largest, but is little cultivated, except by some 

 rich proprietors who have a few trees of it. The olive is preserved 

 green. 



A seventh sort derives its name from the resemblance of the fruit 

 to a hazel-nut, in shape ; the skin is thin, and the pulp rich ; but 

 little cultivated. 



An eighth sort is ^oQcvock;, from Mothone in the Morea, whence it 

 was first introduced. The fruit is either pressed into oil, or preserved 

 ripe. 



Another sort is puTovXtoi, from uipa. blood, because the fruit, when 

 perfectly ripe, being squeezed, gives a red colour to the hands. This 

 is pressed into oil or preserved. 



* We find mention in the Geoponica, ii. 631. of the jxctpxSpou kXcovIcov, which were 

 sometimes mixed with the olives; and Hermippus (in Athenas. lib. ii. c. 47. Schw.) says 

 g|xj3aAXouo"i ju,«pa6ov eg tuc uXixaZctg. 



-f- Olivas fceniculo condire etiamnum apud Graecos solenne est ; has foeniculo et muria 

 conditas olivas appellant xoXvpfirirus lAa'iaj, vocabulo paulum deflexo a veterum xoXv^ahc. 

 — Coray in Athen. lib. ii. c. 47. Schw. 



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