Excerpt from The Olive in California: Varieties, Budding, Grafting, New Methods, and General Observations I desire to express my sincere thanks to Mr. John Rock, of Niles, Alameda County, for the very valuable assistance rendered me in my investigation, and he certainly is deserving of great credit for having introduced and distributed throughout the State mostly all the new varieties now fruiting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.