THE OLIVE 



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given to the world a monograph on the olive which is perhaps the 

 most profound and exhaustive work on the subject that lias yet 

 been written. He separates the olive under three heads as : The 

 domesticated olive, the wild olive, the seedling of the cultivated 

 olive ; although two only, that of the domesticated olive and 

 wild olive, would answer all practical purposes. The domesti- 

 cated olive he assumes to have come from the East. The wild 

 olive he believes to be the tree indigenous to all the coasts of 

 the Mediterranean. The seedling of the cultivated tree is virtu- 

 ally a wild olive, as in only one case of a thousand will the seed 

 ever reproduce the variety from which it came, but constantly re- 

 turns to the wild type. 



The following table will show the olives of Italy, France and 

 Spain, grouped in their relative order of merit as oil olives, and it 

 is interesting to note the position assumed by our own Mission in 

 this comparison with the olives of the world. 





Italy. 





France. 



Spain. 





Razzo 



(1) 





CO 



cu 



Frantojano 





Olivier de Grasse 



Cornicabra or 



C 



Grossajo 





Pleureur 



Mission 



iROU 

 Press 



A 



Correggiolo 



(2) 



Pendoulier 



Royal or 



Taggiasco 





Pendulina 



Gordal 





Racemi or Raci- 









noppe 



"J 



Racimal 



m 



Moiinello 





Mouraou 



Nevadillo Blanco 



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Morajolo 

 Pignolo 



(3) 



Cay on de Marseille 

 Picholine 



A r aral Negro 

 Lech in 





i ; 



Mionolo 



(4)] 





Manzanillo 





Gremignolo 











Leceino 



J 







P a 



Leccio 



(5) * 





Empeltre 



"j <u 



Columbaro 



Puntarolo 



Trillo 





Verdale 



Verdejo 



'C i 



r 









ft § 



Oleastro 







Acebuche 



