A Practical Treatise on Olive Growing: Also Olive Oil Making and Olive Pickling

This special re-print edition of Flamant's book "A Practical Treatise on Olive Growing" offers insight into the early history of olive growing in California. Written in 1887, this classic text provides a picture in time of the earliest introduction of the olive as a commercial crop in the State of Californias. Included are insights into the methods used and the varieties of olives grown in California in the late 19th Century, as well as details on the making of olive oil, as well as pickled olives. Chapters include Soil, Olive Reproduction, General Care, Cost of an Olive Plantation, Varieties of Olives, The Olive Oil, The Pickled Olive and more. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.