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OLEAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 76 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city of Cattaraugus See also:county, in See also:south-western New (Du Cange), influenced by olea, the See also:olive-See also:tree, lorandrum being See also:York, U.S.A., on Olean See also:Creek and the N. See also:side of the See also:Allegheny itself a corruption of See also:rhododendron. The See also:modern Greeks still See also:river, 70 M. S.E. of See also:Buffalo. Pop. (188o), 3036; (1890), 7358; know the plant asbobo8aOo , although in a figure in the See also:Rinuccini (1900), 9462, of whom 1514 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 122 were See also:MSS. of Dioscorides a plant is represented under this name, negroes; (1910 See also:census), 14,743. The city is served by the which, however, had rather the See also:appearance of a See also:willow See also:herb See also:Erie, the See also:Pittsburg, Shawmut & See also:Northern, and the See also:Pennsylvania (Epilobium). The oleander has See also:long been cultivated in See also:green-See also:railways (the last has large See also:car shops here) ; and is connected houses in See also:England, being, as See also:Gerard says, " a small See also:shrub of a with See also:Bradford, Pa., Allegany, Pa., See also:Salamanca, N.Y., Little gallant shewe"; numerous varieties, differing in the See also:colour of their Valley, N.Y., and See also:Bolivar, N.Y., by electric lines. Olean is See also:flowers, which are often See also:double, have been introduced. situated in a level valley 1440 ft. above See also:sea-level. The sur- OLEASTER, known botanically as Elaea.gnus hortensis, a rounding See also:country is See also:rich in oil and natural See also:gas. Six See also:miles from handsome See also:deciduous tree, 15 to 20 ft. high, growing in the Olean and 2000 ft. above the sea-level is See also:Rock City, a See also:group of Mediterranean region and temperate See also:Asia, where it is commonly immense, strangely See also:regular, See also:conglomerate rocks (some of them cultivated for its edible See also:fruit. The See also:brown smooth branches pure See also:white) covering about 40 acres.

They are remnants of. are more or less spiny; the narrow leaves have a hoary look a See also:

bed of Upper Devonian Conglomerate, which See also:broke along from the presence of a dense covering of See also:star-shaped hairs; the See also:joint planes, leaving a group of huge blocks. In the city . the small fragrant yellow flowers, which are See also:borne in the axils are a public library, a See also:general See also:hospital and a See also:state armoury; of the leaves, are scaly on the outside. The genus contains other and at Allegany (pop. 1910, 1286), about 3 M. W. of Olean, is See also:species of ornamental deciduous or See also:evergreen shrubs or small St Bonaventure's See also:College (1859; See also:Roman See also:Catholic). Olean's trees. E. argentea, a native of See also:North See also:America, has leaves and factory product was valued at $4,677,477 in 1905; the city is fruit covered with shining silvery scales. In E. glabra, from the See also:terminus of an See also:Ohio See also:pipe See also:line, and of a sea-See also:board pipe line See also:Japan, the evergreen leaves are clothed beneath with See also:rust-for See also:petroleum; and among its See also:industries are oil-refining and coloured scales; variegated forms of this are cultivated, as the refining of See also:wood See also:alcohol, tanning, currying, and See also:finishing also of E. pungens, another See also:Japanese species, a spiny shrub See also:leather; and the manufacture of See also:flour, See also:glass (mostly bottles), with leaves silvery beneath.

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