Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — Olive Trees 2,000 Years Old. [ARTICLE]

Olive Trees 2,000 Years Old.

It is almost inexplicable that the venerable olive trees should have survived the ravages of so many centuries of warfare and desolation. Many of them are known to be from 1,500 to 2,000 yeurs old, and .their gnarled black trunks are nearly hollow, while the fresh branches grow and the crops succeed each other above. To those who thiuk of Athens as she was and us she is to-day a feeling of despondency and molancholy is inevitable, but, considering that during the last few years the Greeks have done much to develop their manufactures and to introduce modem methods into their employments, that feeling may well give way to hope fora prosperous future for the industries of modern Grctoe.— [New York Press.