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THE OLIVE 



parts, quite distinct, the roots properly so called and which do not 

 shoot of themselves, and the foundations formed of a ligneous mass 

 of tubercles, from which spring the roots in one direction, and the 

 stem in another. Pieces split from this woody mass of the size of 

 the palm of the hand, and an inch and a half thick, jnanted four 

 inches deep with the back uppermost, will give a great number of 

 young plants. But so will the parent root if left in place. When 

 from any cause whatever, a tree has been marked for destruction, if 

 it is cut off below ground and covered with earth, it will send up 

 quantities of new shoots which may be pulled off as young rooted 

 trees, and their places will be many times supplied with others. 



