. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. month, andfrequently while the winter-fig is still onthe tree. Shawc observes that the fig-tree does not properly blossom, or sendout flowers, as we render the Hebrewword ni9/1 tiphrach in Hah. iii. 17-They may rather be said to shoot outtheir fruit, which they do like so manybuttons, with their flowers, imperfect asthey are, inclosed within them. Thisshooting out of the fig-tree was consi-dered by the old Jews as a sign that summer was nigh at As itwas about the end of this month, or inthe early part of the next
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. month, andfrequently while the winter-fig is still onthe tree. Shawc observes that the fig-tree does not properly blossom, or sendout flowers, as we render the Hebrewword ni9/1 tiphrach in Hah. iii. 17-They may rather be said to shoot outtheir fruit, which they do like so manybuttons, with their flowers, imperfect asthey are, inclosed within them. Thisshooting out of the fig-tree was consi-dered by the old Jews as a sign that summer was nigh at As itwas about the end of this month, or inthe early part of the next, that our Sa-viour, at the time of the Passover, wentto a fig-tree expecting to find fruit thereon,but finding leaves only, laid his ban uponit f it may be proper to remind the readerthat the fruit appears before the leaves, and ? The best account of the Doum-palm which we have met with is M. Delisles Description du Palmier Doum, from whichthe above facts relating to it are taken. b CeratoniaSiliqua. c Vol. i. p 265. » Luke xxi. 29, 30. * Mark xi. 12—14. 2g2 SiSS^. [Fig-tree.] ccxxviii PHYSICAL HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Chap. VI. that to see a tree in leaf, while the season for gathering the Jigs as ripe had not yet arrived,rendered it a reasonable expectation to find fruit on it; and this it must have had, if it hadnot been barren. It is well known, even in this country, where the natural habits of the treeare studied to disadvantage, that if our common fig-trees have no young fruit on them inMarch or April, they can produce none that year. The fact is, that the tree in its nativeclimes affords three crops of figs, which it is necessary to distinguish:—First, there is theboccore or early Jig, called in Scripture the Jirst ripe This is far from being ripeat the end of March, for its time of ripeness is not until the middle of June. Hence itwas not the time of ripe Jigs. However, says Shaw, it frequently happens in Barbary,and we need not doubt of the like in this hott
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