. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. s quality, it is wrong to sup-pose that olive-oil is always intended; for it is incredible that the oil of almonds could be un-known to, or unvalued by, a peoplewho sought after and employed vegeta-ble oils so largely as the Hebrews. Gumpenberga says that the olivetree had put forth its leaves at Jerusa-lem on the 12th of this month. Russell notices that neither orangesnor lemons will stand the winters ofAleppo,b nor will it in the higher andcolder regions of Palestine. But theorange-tree as well as the citron thrivewel
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. s quality, it is wrong to sup-pose that olive-oil is always intended; for it is incredible that the oil of almonds could be un-known to, or unvalued by, a peoplewho sought after and employed vegeta-ble oils so largely as the Hebrews. Gumpenberga says that the olivetree had put forth its leaves at Jerusa-lem on the 12th of this month. Russell notices that neither orangesnor lemons will stand the winters ofAleppo,b nor will it in the higher andcolder regions of Palestine. But theorange-tree as well as the citron thrivewell along the coast of Palestine, andproduce very excellent fruit in greatabundance. Buckingham0 noticed onthe 16th of this month that the orange- trees at Ramla continued to be ladenwith their golden fruit. Gumpenberg dalso states that on the 1st of Februaryhe saw an orange-tree full of fruit andblossoms, close to the Lake of and citrons are also producedin the interior; DArvieux e andThevenot saw both at Shechem (Nab-lous). We find no notice of the con-. Page 449. Palestine/ i. 251. d Reisbach, 450. [Orange-Tree.] b Vol. i. p. DArvieux, ii. 79; Thevenot, i. 215. Chap. VII.] HISTORY OF THE MONTHS—JANUARY. ccxiii dition of the citron-tree in this month. Probably the same as that of the orange. How-ever, for convenience, we may in this place mention that it is supposed, with very goodreason, that the fruit mentioned in our translation of the Bible under the name of apple,was in reality the citron. The word occurs in six places, in which the fruit is men-tioned with circumstances which agree well with the citron, but not with the apple, whichfruit indeed is pour and bad in Palestine, so that most of those consumed there are importedfrom Damascus. The niBD, tapuach, which is the name in question, occurs as describingone of the noblest trees of the wood, the fruit of which was very sweet, or pleasant :athis fruit was of the colour of gold,b extremely fragrant,
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