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PRÇ>CESS Of' PRESSING OLIVES. 201pots,each pot being four b.'iquet,';; but it is hard ta guard againstconfusion in measures here, and this baftles inquiry; the common pot isout tluee triquets. But, in short, the quar'tain of eight pots sells on thespot for twenty-two francs. An olive tree's annual value is probablyabottfeightshillingsofoul" Hloney. The olive is planted out at five yearsof age, and iofive years morewHl begin to yield produce. This, how:­ever, hasheen deoied. 13efo1'e Christmas (1Jecember 20th) oli,;es are,sent to the mill,to be pressed.--Process: They are first graund under aperpendiGular wheel, as bark i8 done, which 1'educes them ta a pulp,breakü'lgthe stones. J~lthis pulp the oi1y qua1ity now becomes obviousfor the firs~.tirne,frhitherto the olive is but an acrid bitter (that eatenat desserts ls a different species from the one sent .10 tlle mill). Thispulpis 1aidio a-.vat.; hencep,ut ioto rush baskets, like .those io whichngsiares,cllt .10 England. These. are piled perpendicularlyunder a doublepress,. ~n twocO'lumns;