KNOWN OLIVE HISTORY-TEXAS
• Catholic archives in San Antonio indicate Spanish missionaries did not plant olives in Texas as they did in California (Denney, 1982).
• Onderdonk (1900), important Texas nurseryman and fruit explorer wrote favorably of olives in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, but was otherwise silent about them.
• Old trees dated 1920’s are reported to exist and bear fruit at places like Asherton & Galveston.
• Mortensen (1938) described olive varieties introduced from California as “fair” for Wintergarden area and better for dooryard than commercial purposes.
• Hartmann (1951) “Twenty-year effort in South Texas has failed to see fruiting” (Weslaco/Brownsville).
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