. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. fym^mitntt. The Cultivation of the Olive in Cali- fornia. BY JOHN D. SCOTT, M. D. M — Q|j7r)s. Aonicui/TUEisT: The visitor to this Jjl. State is as much astonished as delighted (y^ to Bee the groves of evergreen olive o^ trees in and about the old missions so common in California. The cultivation of this beautiful and valuable tree has ever been associated in his mind with the siinny vales of France and the balmy airs of Italy. He forgets for a moment that the g
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. fym^mitntt. The Cultivation of the Olive in Cali- fornia. BY JOHN D. SCOTT, M. D. M — Q|j7r)s. Aonicui/TUEisT: The visitor to this Jjl. State is as much astonished as delighted (y^ to Bee the groves of evergreen olive o^ trees in and about the old missions so common in California. The cultivation of this beautiful and valuable tree has ever been associated in his mind with the siinny vales of France and the balmy airs of Italy. He forgets for a moment that the great Pacific Ocean Stream, bubbling Tip from the Torrid zone and laving and warming these AVestern shores, is doing for us what the Gulf Stream in the East, flowing across the Atlantic, does for Western Europe. It is well known that whilst England, France, Portugal .and Spain are basking in warm sunshine. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick .and the New England States, in the same latitudes, are shiveriug iu the frigid grasp of Winter. A similar cause pro- duces the same efTect here. Whilst we are enjoying an Italian climate, our minister to China writes us that the denizens of the so- called Flowery Kingdom are bound fast in the icy fetters of Winter. It seems, then, to be one of the great climatic laws of our globe that the isothermal lines shall rise to very high latitudes on the Western borders of the two great continents, whilst they fall very low on the Eastern, giving a mild and genial climate to Western Europe and Western Amer- ica, and a frozen one to Eastern America and Eastern Asia. These trees were planted here by the Jesuit Fathers over three quarters of a century ago. Whilst Europe was being bathed in the blsod of unholy and mad ambition, these noble, self-sacrificing men, tossed by the stormy waves of two oceans, or daring the untried perils of a trackless continent, were here in these Western wilds endeavoring to establish the Kingdom of the Prince of Peace—their swo
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