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Pictured is a family gathering the fruit of grafted wild olives in Algeria.

Olive Gathering

Pictured is a family gathering the fruit of grafted wild olives in Algeria.

"The olive tree grows abundantly in all the countries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea." -Lupton It's fruit, the olive, is used as a major resource to these countries for the production of olive oil.

Olive Tree

"The olive tree grows abundantly in all the countries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea." -Lupton It's…

"By the time [olive trees] are well grown the form of the young tree is established, and further pruning for form may be done in a general manner to obtain the following results: (1) Maintenance of a comparatively open center to the tree; (2) exposure to the sun and air as large a number as possible of last year's branches around the circumference of the tree; (3) removal of all ground suckers and water sprouts; (4) preservation of outward-growing and drooping basal and lateral fruit branches; (5) heading back of upward-growing limbs, which consume much, but produce little; and, (6) the removal of all diseased or injured wood. In pruning for form the rules governing pruning for fruit should be kept in mind."—Government Printing Office, 1897

An Olive Tree

"By the time [olive trees] are well grown the form of the young tree is established, and further pruning…

Pictured is an ancient olive tree in an orchard in the south of France.

Ancient Olive Tree

Pictured is an ancient olive tree in an orchard in the south of France.

Tuberculosis of olive is also known as "olive knot". Olive knot is the only serious disease which attacks the olive in California.

Olive Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis of olive is also known as "olive knot". Olive knot is the only serious disease which attacks…