Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1895 — The Olive Tree. [ARTICLE]

The Olive Tree.

The olive tree is supposed to have been originally a native of Greece, but it is now naturalized in the south of France, Italy, and Spain, where it has been extensively cultivated from time immemorial for the oil expressed from the fruit The tree attains an almost Incredible age. Near Femi, in the Vale of Marmora, hj a. plantation about two miles in extent of very 1 old trees, sup-posed-to be the same trees mentioned by Pliny aS grdwlng there in the first century of the Christian era.