. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. wild olive is only mentioned by in his letter to the Roman Christians,<md is made the basis of a very beautiful figu-rative argument. Alluding to the extens;onof the Gospel to the Gentiles, and the rejec-tion of the Jews as exclusive participators inits blessings, he writes to his Gentile con-verts : If some of the branches be brokenoff, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wertgraffed in among them, and with them par-takest of the root and fatness of the olivetree; boast not against the branches. There
. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. wild olive is only mentioned by in his letter to the Roman Christians,<md is made the basis of a very beautiful figu-rative argument. Alluding to the extens;onof the Gospel to the Gentiles, and the rejec-tion of the Jews as exclusive participators inits blessings, he writes to his Gentile con-verts : If some of the branches be brokenoff, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wertgraffed in among them, and with them par-takest of the root and fatness of the olivetree; boast not against the branches. There is of the olive tree, as of most otherswhich are extensively cultivated for profit,the wild or original kind, which is also calledOlea Oleaster, and certain varieties improvedby cultivation, of which the best is that namedOlea satica; by those who regard these as forming but varieties of one species—Oleaeuropea—the former is called communis, andthe latter, longifolia. That the wild oliveof St. Paul refers to the original kind, andthe natural branches to the cultivated kind. The Olive. or kinds, appears scarcely to admit of doubt,when the reference to the practice of grafting,which must have been known to the Romans,is taken into consideration ; for the operationof grafting is well known to be restrictedwithin narrow limits, those plants which areconstitutionally allied only admitting of this F 2 G8 THE FLOWERS AND FRUITS OF SCRIPTURE. kind of union. Hence the Elaeagnus, beingof a widely different natural constitution, couldnot be grafted into the olive. The evidencewhich is adduced in apparent support of thislatter practice, from the old authors, probablyrests on a misunderstanding of the plants theyintended, the identification of the plants of theancients being one of the exercises of thelearned, and one which, from the obscuritywhich rests upon it, is very liable to was the practice of the ancients to graftthe wild upon the cultivated olive tree, witha view no do
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