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Rh In fact the same one hundred olives

The variations are due to the quantity of water contained in the pulp according to the hygromic condition, the winds, the rain and the hoar frost which coincided with the gathering.

On the twenty fifth of November the olives were empurpled, and had a reddish pulp, on the tenth of December they had turned black and the pulp was still more highly colored, and on the tenth of February the pulp was entirely of a winey red.

In one hundred parts of these olives the following proportion was found in weight of water, of dry material and of fatty material.