Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1900 — Olives. [ARTICLE]

Olives.

The olive has boon cultivated in the region of the Mediterranean const from time immemorial. Olive oil there takes the place of butter. S[Miin lias about 3,000,000 acres In olives, Italy 2,500,000, and France about 300;000 acres. There are forty-five different varieties of the fruit grown in Europe. The tree occasionally grows to lie sixty feet high and twelve feet In circumference of trunk. The varieties differ In the nature of the wood, the foliage, and the quality and shape of the fruit.