. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. he 13th)noticed, among a great variety of shrubs, the clethra arborea, or tree clethra (which is foundin our conservatories), flowering in great vigour. The White Mulberry offers its ripe fruit about the middle of this months The tree is men-tioned in Scripture11 in such a way as toshow that it was anciently very common inthe country. This is still the case, and asgrowing naturally, or in gardens, it issuffered to attain its proper size and pro-portions, except in those parts where it issolely cultivated for the sake of
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. he 13th)noticed, among a great variety of shrubs, the clethra arborea, or tree clethra (which is foundin our conservatories), flowering in great vigour. The White Mulberry offers its ripe fruit about the middle of this months The tree is men-tioned in Scripture11 in such a way as toshow that it was anciently very common inthe country. This is still the case, and asgrowing naturally, or in gardens, it issuffered to attain its proper size and pro-portions, except in those parts where it issolely cultivated for the sake of the foodwhich its leaves afford to the orientals generally have one or moretrees in the large court-yards of theirhouses. In Arabia this is generally thepalm-tree ; it is often the mulberry-tree inthose parts of Palestine most favourable toits The mulberry-tree is thesource of wealth to the whole country ofthe Druzes, by the quantities of silkwhich it enables them to the mountains of Lebanonand Kesraoun, and in the plain below,. a Vol. p. 135. d Hasselquist, 276; Rauwolff, 21 6 Hasselquist, 165. [White Mulberry. Morus alba.] b Burckhardts Syria, Hasselquist, 129, 2 2 Sam. , 24; 1 Chron. xiv. 14, 15. c p. 281. f Vol. i. p. 99. Burckhardt, 91. Chap. VII.] HISTORY OF THE MONTHS—APRIL. ccxxxvii the mulberry-tree is, for this reason, most extensively cultivated; and as the price of silk,the staple commodity of the district, has doubled within the last twelve years, the culti-vation is increasing, in some places to the exclusion of every other tree, and even to theneglect of garden produce, which it is found cheaper to purchase from places which have notthe same inducements to forego the culture. Thus Beirout derives its principal supply ofgarden vegetables from Sidon,a to which place the peasants of the surrounding country bringtheir surplus produce for sale; for at Sidon itself, much, although not exclusive, attenti
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