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~o~ SECOND JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE IN 1814.of the oil, eompared to the jerk of thehip, the ancie,nt seat of effort..Suell was the procedure of primitive days. The oil fioats in the vat atthe top, and is skimmed off. The lightest is the best. The pressedsu bstance feeds fowls and pigs welleA qum-tain of oil, twellty-two pounds weight, is the prodlllceof t\\''OllUndred weight of olives, the growth of fourteen trees. Reckoll a hUll.'-.-dred and twelve trees to" an English acre, supposing them to standthirty feet apart, more or less, eight quartains, at twenty-two francs theqZtartail'b, yield a return of about seven pounds sterling the Englishacre.A good olive tree will produce three hundred pounds reeight onits heariogyears.detrimental to it fi;:.Âssured.-If a tree bear two successive years, it is veryCorn, vines, &c. are planted in the intervals of the olives, but u,p.­parently to liUle avail. The olive requires to have the earthfrequeFlt}y.stirred about it; and this must he done byhâl"~d, andwÏith the greatestnicety.It requires,too, the very best of manure; sllch, for instance,as old rags. On this subject,of manure, they :Let go waste,.here"m;ueiof the very best, namely soap wash; used so' abundantly oowim:~eselK< This tree thrives onIy within twénty-five leagues of the sea. It is a delieate plant,hut, notwithstanding,can sUEPort a very considerable degree of cold without its foliage being injured (a~for instance in the winter of 1814, when the ice,was three inches thick); l!tut ifsnow settles, oricicles fix on the twigs, they wither, and the tree frequently dies to the very roots. In that caseit iseut clown to ahout six inches below the surf;1Ce ofthe ground; and suchparts of tJle roots as h!+v~retainecl any life send up fresh shoots to renew the tree; and a stock of them is further thus furnishedfor reproduction, and to plant elsewhere. But this procedure is very slow; and those whomake olive plantations do it more for their children than. for themselves. The ground around tll~tree mustbe carefully tilled and kept clean. It> ought to be hoed thr.ee times a-year,. the earthopened to the roots, and dung of the stable applied every three years. Woollen rags, sweepings ofslaughter-houses, and such strong manures, are proper; but the usuaI one is a composition of horse,..dung with them, as those articles are so expensive. Sheep's dung is considered lQo hot, and. that .ofpigeons still more so. An olive tree may produce thirty cartes of olives, and these four cart.es ofoH; but to do this a large tree, and of a very capital killd, iSlleee&lary. Tbose whicb yie1dJeight