A Biblical and theological dictionary: explanatory of the history, manners, and customs of the Jews, and neighbouring nations . UM w^m ,^. PAL 726 PAL neons. To this bark the leaves are closelyjoined, which in the centre rise erect; but,after they are advanced above the vaginawhich surrounds them, they expand very wideon every side the stem ; and, as the olderleaves decay, the stalk advances in leaves, when the tree has grown to a sizefor bearing fruit, are six or eight feet long,are very broad when spread out, and are usedfor covering the tops of houses, &c. The fruit,which is call
A Biblical and theological dictionary: explanatory of the history, manners, and customs of the Jews, and neighbouring nations . UM w^m ,^. PAL 726 PAL neons. To this bark the leaves are closelyjoined, which in the centre rise erect; but,after they are advanced above the vaginawhich surrounds them, they expand very wideon every side the stem ; and, as the olderleaves decay, the stalk advances in leaves, when the tree has grown to a sizefor bearing fruit, are six or eight feet long,are very broad when spread out, and are usedfor covering the tops of houses, &c. The fruit,which is called date, grows below the leavesin clusters and is of a sweet and agreeabletaste. The learned Ksempfer, as a botanist,an antiquary, and a traveller, has exhaustedthe whole subject of palm trees. The dili-gent natives, says Mr. Gibbon, celebrated,either in verse or prose, the three hundred andsixty uses to which the trunk, the branches,the leaves, the juice, and the fruit, were skil-fully applied. The extensive importanceof the date tree, says Dr. E. D. Clarke, isone of the most curious subjects to which atraveller can direct his
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