Wanderings in the Roman campagna . :;i5j^^ ANCIENT OLIVE TREES. SfWIND OF GREGORY THE GREAT THE LAND OF HADRIAN 147 the year 1556, when a first census was taken, 75,000were growinp; within the municipal jurisdiction; 103,045were numbered in 1739; 126,000 in 1845, 150,000 at thepresent day. The trees five on a belt of the limestoneformation, from five hundred to one thousand feet abovesea-level. The line above which olive-growing wouldnot prove remunerative can be seen even from Rome,the dark hue of the grove describing a perfectly hori-zontal line against the white g-round of the rocks. Nat-ur
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . :;i5j^^ ANCIENT OLIVE TREES. SfWIND OF GREGORY THE GREAT THE LAND OF HADRIAN 147 the year 1556, when a first census was taken, 75,000were growinp; within the municipal jurisdiction; 103,045were numbered in 1739; 126,000 in 1845, 150,000 at thepresent day. The trees five on a belt of the limestoneformation, from five hundred to one thousand feet abovesea-level. The line above which olive-growing wouldnot prove remunerative can be seen even from Rome,the dark hue of the grove describing a perfectly hori-zontal line against the white g-round of the rocks. Nat-uralists have distinguished seventeen varieties of treesand berries. The most impressive section of the grovelies in the direction of Gericomio; it contains worthyrivals of the Albero Bello; one especially, near thevoltata delle Carrozze, forming u mass of green ahundred and twenty feet in circumference. The Tibur-tine chroniclers assign to it an age of seventeen hun-dred years, which is obviously an exaggeration; jjut Ihave no doubt that this veteran has seen
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