Peasant life in the Holy Land . s, etc., will often be seen planted near theouter edge, where the soil is deepest, and in thespaces between them and the wall of the terraceabove vegetables will be grown, or the landwill be ploughed, and corn, lentils, or other crops,sown there. Vines are commonly planted close tothe outer wall, the branches being trained so thatthey hang down over it. In the early summer,when the vines are in their fresh green foliage, thepicture, as one looks at such a terraced hillside frombelow, with cascade after cascade of brilliant verdurerelieved by the darker hue of th
Peasant life in the Holy Land . s, etc., will often be seen planted near theouter edge, where the soil is deepest, and in thespaces between them and the wall of the terraceabove vegetables will be grown, or the landwill be ploughed, and corn, lentils, or other crops,sown there. Vines are commonly planted close tothe outer wall, the branches being trained so thatthey hang down over it. In the early summer,when the vines are in their fresh green foliage, thepicture, as one looks at such a terraced hillside frombelow, with cascade after cascade of brilliant verdurerelieved by the darker hue of the olive and fig, thewarm red-brown colour of the soil, and the gray ofthe stone walls peeping out here and there, is verybeautiful. Where there are no trees, as is commonly the case,the teiTaces look like a great staircase of irregular,uneven steps, ascending the hills. In places theseterraces are very numerous, especially on the sidesof the deeper valleys, and in the Lebanon 1 havecounted between seventy and eighty of them one. X 03SI o < HO
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