. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . theseven wonders of the world, may have re-ceived some hints applicable to the terrace-culture so general on the hills of great proportion of Palestine was laidout in gardens and vineyards, especially inthe neighborhood of cities. According to Jo-sephus, the environs of Jerusalem were al-most all devoted to gardens; but it appearsfrom the rabbins that, for sanitary reasons,there were no gardens within the
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . theseven wonders of the world, may have re-ceived some hints applicable to the terrace-culture so general on the hills of great proportion of Palestine was laidout in gardens and vineyards, especially inthe neighborhood of cities. According to Jo-sephus, the environs of Jerusalem were al-most all devoted to gardens; but it appearsfrom the rabbins that, for sanitary reasons,there were no gardens within the walls ex-cept a few plantations of roses, which hadexisted since the days of the prophets. In Scripture, we have indications of variousinclosures which occasionally bear the gen-eral name of garden. We read of a gardenof nuts, i. e., nut-bearing trees, and an or-chard of pomegranates, and continually ofvineyards and olive-yards. There were or-chards where various sorts of trees were 1 2 Kings xxi., IS, 26; Psa. exxviii., 3; Sol. Songvii., 12; Isa. i., 29; lxv., 3 ; Ixvi., IT; Matt, xxvi., 36;John xviii., 1; xix., 41, 42.—2 Numb, xi., 4-6. GAEDEN 37G GAELIC WSlmMmmM an t. ^ Ancient Egyptian Garden. reared together, and which sometimes con-tained trees more valued for foliage than forfruit—trees of emptiness, like the plane,the terebinth, and the mulberry. Gardens ofherbs and kitchen-gardens are also mention-ed. Among the culinary vegetables of theHebrews were gourds, cucumbers, melons, andaromatic herbs ; nor were they likely to omitthe onion and the garlic. Like most Orientalnations, they were fond of perfumes, and there-fore odoriferous plants occupied the chiefplace in the flower-gardens of ancient Pales-tine. This is abundantly illustrated by theimpassioned address of the bride of Solomon,the imagery of which was probably suggest-ed by Solomons own The site ofthese is still shown in the Wady Urtas, aboutan hour and a quarter south of kings garden,
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