. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. is grown, is the greatestamong herbs, and becometh a tree, sothat the birds of the air come and lodgein the branches The Jewishwriters speak of a mustard tree, com-mon among them, in quite correspond-ing terms, seeming to show that a spe-cies of the sinapis or some analogousgenus, existed in Palestine, with whichwe are not well acquainted; and whichmay very probably prove to be thatwhich Captain Mangles has pointedout. It is to be regretted that he didnot make himself acquainted with itsname. As to the more co
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. is grown, is the greatestamong herbs, and becometh a tree, sothat the birds of the air come and lodgein the branches The Jewishwriters speak of a mustard tree, com-mon among them, in quite correspond-ing terms, seeming to show that a spe-cies of the sinapis or some analogousgenus, existed in Palestine, with whichwe are not well acquainted; and whichmay very probably prove to be thatwhich Captain Mangles has pointedout. It is to be regretted that he didnot make himself acquainted with itsname. As to the more common speciesof mustard, of which he incidentallyspeaks, we may as well mention here(although rather out of place among trees and shrubs) that it was pro-bably the Sinapis Orientalis, attaining,under a favouring climate and circum-stances, a stature which it will not reachin our climates. This species is commonin Palestine. In essential character itdiffers little from the Sinapis arvensis (which supplies thetinguished chiefly by the beak only of the pod being smooth -- -. [Sinapis Orientalis.] Durham mustard), being dis- The Vine.—Although the vintage itself does not begin before September, still quantitiesof grapes are gathered for the table from the latter end of May until that The a Not the doum-palm,—Crucifera T/wbuica. b This is the native name of the Asclepias prorera, or bell-flowered gigantic swallow-wort. c Travels, 353. d Matt. xiii. 31, 32. e Thevenot, ii. C2. ccliv PHYSICAL HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Chap. VII. early grapes thus supplied were accounted great delicacies by the Hebrews, and were doubtlessamong the first ripe fruits which the bride in the Canticles desired; and if she were anEgyptian princess, this desire may have been the more strongly entertained, as the grapes ofEgypt are very inferior to those of Palestine. In that tender poem, the time of which isevidently the spring of the year, there are other allusions to this as one of the characterist
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