 Pliny as growing there in the first century of the Christian era. In Palestine, here and there, are olive trees estimated to be two thousand years old, and some of these, although their trunks are hollow and like an empty shell, bear bountiful crops ;...  Florida Fruits and how to Raise Them - Página 201por Helen Harcourt - 1886 - 347 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Vegetable substances - 1833 - 480 páginas
...wealth to the farmer, and the tree rivals the oak in longevity, so that the common proverb here is, ' If you want to leave a lasting inheritance to your children's children plant an olive.' There is an old olive-tree near Gericomio which last year yielded two hundred and forty English quarts... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - 472 páginas
...wealth to the farmer; and the tree rivals the oak in longevity ; so that the common proverb here. is, ' If you want to leave a lasting inheritance to your children's children, plant an olive ' There is an old olive-tree near Gericomio, which last year yielded 240 quarts of oil. Yet its trunk... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1839 - 418 páginas
...wealth to the farmer ; and the tree rivals the oak in longevity ; so that the common proverb here is, ' If you want to leave a lasting inheritance to your children's children, plant an olive.' There is an old olive-tree near Gericomio, which last year yielded two hundred and forty quarts of... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1841 - 316 páginas
...the trunk is reduced to a mere shell ; so that it is a common proverb where it is cultivated, — " If you want to leave a lasting inheritance to your children's children, plant an olive." Olive oil is very extensively used in the south of Europe, in the preparation of various dishes for... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - 600 páginas
...the trunk is reduced to a mere shell ; so that it is a common proverb where it is cultivated, — " If you want to leave a lasting inheritance to your children's children, plant an olive." Olive oil is very extensively used in the south of Europe, in the preparation of various dishes for... | |
 | 1850 - 538 páginas
...remarkable for the great age it attains to, so that the Italians have a common proverb, "If you wish to leave a lasting inheritance to your children's children, plant an olive;" and there are even at the present day olive trees growing near Terni, in Italy, which are believed to have... | |
 | William Rhind - 1857 - 874 páginas
...good years, the produce is the surest source of wealth to the farmer. A common saying in Italy is, " if you want to leave a lasting inheritance to your children's children, plant an olive." There is an old olive tree, says a recent traveller, near Gericomio, which last year (1819) yielded... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1875 - 258 páginas
...and is likely to be extensively grown in our Australian Colonies, for its valuable oil, &c. It is a saying in Italy, " If you want to leave a lasting...to your children's children, plant an olive;" and an Italian speaks of an olivetum, or olive plantation, as "a mine on the surface of the earth." Pliny... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1877 - 564 páginas
...bounteous gift of heaven, and the emblem of peace and plenty. There is a common saying in Italy that " if you want to leave a lasting inheritance to your children's children, plant an olive." In Italy the young olive bears fruit at two years old ; that is in two years after it has been placed... | |
 | Helen Garnie Warner - 1886 - 358 páginas
...among these stands the Cuthbert, a very fine, red berry, and one especially adapted for trial here. CHAPTER XXI. OLIVES AND PECANS— OLIVES. The olive...fruit at two or three years old, increasing up to its fif,tioth year, and in its sixth year, if it has been well cared for, begins to repay the expense of... | |
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