Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-06
the SLOW GROWING OLIVE.
California Orchards Begin to Produce
Wealth.

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and are known to be 500 years ui1.
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the Roman campagna 700 years before.
In 1858 at the worlds fair IN Paris.
there was shown a section from an olive
tree in Algeria reputed TO be 1oo0 years
old One planted by ST. Francis at Frati
in 1890 was still in existence in 1900. 1t
was this length of days, and perhaps, a
thought of the slow process of growth by
the old seeding method. that gave rise TO
this one of the many proverbs inspired
by the tree: MY olive trees for my
| grandson
my orange orchard for myself.
Among the cargo of provisions and nee
essares shipped by wise and prudent
Galzaig with the Franciscan pioneers
who came to California from Mexico in
1863 to convert the Indians to Christian
ity We're olive seeds. and every mission
had its olive garden. One of these trees.
perhaps the largest olive tree in the
state. stands still at Capistrano. 1t Is
fifty feet high and has Il trunk with a di-
ameter of five feet
The first olive oil made in California
outside Of the Franciscan monasteries
was produced at the Comulus ranch in
1871. In 1892 the production of olive oil
had grown to $4,000 gallons in 1879 it was
about 10000 gallons. and this Year esti-
mate put it at about 100000 gallons. The
extent OF the American market open to
the California olive oil makers can be
realized from the fact that s50.o05 gallons
of olive oil is annually imported into the
Cnfted States from Italy. Spain and
France, and tens of thousands Of gallons
OF olive oil aduiterated with peanut cot
tUiiSetu anu puppy Oh IL sclu every year
in this country.
Surprise is expressed sometimes that
olive culture should have been so back
ward in this state, considering that its
profit and adaptability to this climate and
soil were demonstrated decades ago. The
principal reason is the former very slow
process of propagating Olive trees. The
present method of growing olive trees for
orchard planting was not known until
about 1873 The method of producing
olive trees now in vogue among Euro
pean growers Is to cut limbs as large as
mans arm from trees and from each
OF these start 4 new tree. An olive tree
will not furnish more than three or four
such limbs for propagating purposes
Another method is the fashioned one
Of planting seeds. This is the slowest
method of making an orchard, ald takes
eighteen or twenty years. In California
the plan is to use small cuttings Olive
trees for orchard planting used 10 cost s.
and 81 each. They can now be had by the
thousands for 10 and 10 cents each. There
are in Pomona. nursery owners tnat grow
each haif million young olive trees for
orchard purposes each year. The cut
tings. which come by hundreds from q
full-sized tree. are about the size of
toothpicks. They are propasated and
rooted in sand in -conservatories, in the
same way that rose cuttings are grown
into rose bushes and rose trees. The new
method requires the most constant atten-
tion and much experience but the plants
are grown on SO enormous a scale that
the cost of each i very low. When the
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