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Dear Sir:—Will you kindly permit me to most respectfully dedicate to you, as the acknowledged Father of American Olive Culture in California, this little work?

I do so with no design of covering its defects or inaccuracies (and many such will doubtless be found) with the mantle of your name.

It is a contribution to the local literature on the subject, and must stand on its own merits, if any it has, and take its chance of criticism.

My attention was first attracted to the olive when my friend Mr. Edward E. Goodrich purchased the Quito Olive Farm in December 1882, and began its reform and development under your kind advice and suggestion.