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 and more severe than those experienced in this perpetual-spring climate of California.

To resume what has been already said in this chapter, I am decidedly in favor of the propagation of the olive tree in our climate by means of small cuttings, freshly cut at those periods of the year when the tree experiences a comparative repose, coming directly or originally from grafted trees, and raised in boxes or nurseries. When one season old these little rooted plants are ready to be transferred to permanent sites; there they will make a growth of from two to three feet a year; they will develop more rapidly than vine cuttings of similar age, as I have had frequent occasion to verify, and they will begin to bear some fruit in their fourth year, as has been asserted repeatedly by Mr. Elwood Cooper of Santa Barbara; Mr. Frank A. Kimbal, of San Diego; Mr. W. G. Klee, of the State University; Mr. W. A. Hayne, Jr., of Santa Barbara; Mr. L. A. Gould, of Auburn; Mr. Isaac Lea, of Florin; Captain Guy E. Grosse, of Santa Rosa; Mr. H. W. Crabb, of Oakville; Mr. A. B. Ware and Colonel Geo. F. Hooper, of Sonoma, etc.

In reference to this I will quote the following extracts:

From Mr. Elwood Cooper's Treatise on the olive: "Trees growing from cuttings will produce fruit the fourth year, and sometimes, under the most favorable circumstances, will give a few berries the third year. My oldest orchard was planted