| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4

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The Olive in California: History of an Immigrant Tree. By Judith M. Taylor (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2000. xix + 316 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $32.50, cloth.)

Four trees, all evergreens, capture and express the Mediterranean essence: cork oak, protector of the region's most perishable beverage; Italian cypress and umbrella pine, punctuators of its landscapes; and the olive, promoter of the health, joy, and esthetic sensibilities of its cultures. All of these have long been grown in California, where the climate would seem to promise them success. But cork never made it in this American setting, cypress rows seem too grand for accenting mortuaries and shopping malls, and those glorious domes of the pines of Rome cannot long be contained on a city lot. Only the olive has truly flourished in California, and provided the benefits long conferred on its original cultivators. . . .

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