. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. Growiiip- Olives from Seed 280 California Fruits fruit soils, deep and naturally well drained, as well as from fruit grown upon drier up- lands, and the production on deeper, richer lands is much larger. PROPAGATION OF THE OLIVE. Olives are propagated from seed, and from cuttings of various kinds and sizes. The growth from seed is seldom practised in the kernels are deprived of their shell, they are kept moist in a compost, or mixture of cow-dung and sandy soil, and are sown thickly in the month of April. If it is thought to be too much
. California fruits and how to grow them. Fruit culture. Growiiip- Olives from Seed 280 California Fruits fruit soils, deep and naturally well drained, as well as from fruit grown upon drier up- lands, and the production on deeper, richer lands is much larger. PROPAGATION OF THE OLIVE. Olives are propagated from seed, and from cuttings of various kinds and sizes. The growth from seed is seldom practised in the kernels are deprived of their shell, they are kept moist in a compost, or mixture of cow-dung and sandy soil, and are sown thickly in the month of April. If it is thought to be too much work to take the kernels out of the pits, they must be soaked for twenty four hours in a solution of one half-pound of concentrated lye to the gallon of water. Most of the seeds sprout the first year. Planting the naked kernels gives the quickest. Irrigation and the Olive; Large trees at both ends irrigated, central trees allowed to go dry. this State, liecause growth from cuttings is result. Without using this artificial means easy, and furnishes the variety desired without the seeds may remain dormant at least for grafting. two years. Large Cuttings.—There are two chief methods of propagating the olive from cut- tings now practiced in California. One uses well-matured wood, and the other young wood which has just passed out of the her- baceous state. Practice with hard wood pro- ceeds by taking cuttings of sound wood about a foot long and one-half to one inch in di- ameter, and rooting them as already described Growing Olives from Seed.—The olives should not be planted with the pulp, but cleaned of this either by letting them rot in a pile or by putting them into an alkaline solution to cut the oil. A simple way to has- ten germination is to break the pits, taking care not to hurt the germ. An instruinent similar to the nut cracker has been invented in France which is said to work well. When. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may ha
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