Scripture Natural History (Classic Reprint): I. The Trees and Plants Mentioned in the Bible - Couverture souple

William H. Groser

 
9781330573068: Scripture Natural History (Classic Reprint): I. The Trees and Plants Mentioned in the Bible

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T/ze rest of table-lands which constitute the greater part Of Palestine, both east and west Of the Jordan, include a ?ora Of a more widely diffused character, comprising plants of Central Europe and Western Asia, with not a few Species growing in our own island. Among them may be mentioned pines and junipers, the terebinth, the almond, apricot and peach, the hawthorn and mountain ash, the ivy and honeysuckle, the walnut and mulberry; oaks, poplars, and willows; the majestic cedars Of Lebanon, the melancholy cypress, and the plane-tree with its wide-spreading shade.

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Ssrria is well worthy to be the home of dvilization, pos$essing as she does lands fertile even under complete abandonment; fields producing spontaneously cereals for food and silks and cottons for clothing; timber of every description, and of the best quality, from the cedar to the oak, from the plane to the pine, and whidi may be had for the felling; while sycomores of enormous size spread their branches wide enough to cover a whole caravan with their grateful shade. .. Whatever in the vegetable kingdom is useful or beautiful is here found in the natural unforced produce of the soil, spread out in rich and prodigal abundance Farley, Two Years inS
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