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OLIVE TREE. 
moist shady woods : Maryland and Virginia, rare, b May, 
v. v .” Yet with all this assertion, it continues, as far as I 
know, to rest wholly on the authority of Pursh, no other 
botanist having pretended to find this obscure plant, which 
in all probability, is nothing more than a name bestowed 
upon a mere variety of the European Ornus, by gardeners 
for purposes of profit. 
The Olive Tree, (O/ea Europcea.) The cultivation of 
the Olive has been attended with the greatest success in 
Upper California, and the olives produced are of an excel- 
lent quality. It might also, no doubt, be cultivated in the 
southern part of the Oregon territory. Around Sta. Bar- 
bara, the Olive trees were in full flower in the latter end of 
March and beginning of April, and put on the appearance 
of a willow grove. Forty barrels of these pickled olives 
were shipped from St. Diego to Boston in the Alert, the 
vessel in which I returned to the United States in 1836. 
