. An encyclopædia of gardening; . 2500 years ago, one of the necessaries of life, and when the prophet Isaiah meantto convey an idea of the miseries of a famine, he foretold that a cab of doves dungwould be sold for a shekel of silver. The whole province of Syria was formerly famousfor its horticultural productions, of which the bunch of grapes brought to Moses by his Book I. GARDENING IN CHINA. 101 spies {Nuvib. xiii. 23.) is a proof; but it has been in a constant state of neglect since itcame into the hands of the Turks, who, of all nations, as Montesquieu observes, arethe most proper to enj
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . 2500 years ago, one of the necessaries of life, and when the prophet Isaiah meantto convey an idea of the miseries of a famine, he foretold that a cab of doves dungwould be sold for a shekel of silver. The whole province of Syria was formerly famousfor its horticultural productions, of which the bunch of grapes brought to Moses by his Book I. GARDENING IN CHINA. 101 spies {Nuvib. xiii. 23.) is a proof; but it has been in a constant state of neglect since itcame into the hands of the Turks, who, of all nations, as Montesquieu observes, arethe most proper to enjoy large tracts of land with insignificance. 467. Trees and bushes appear to have been held in superstitious veneration in thesecountries as early as the time of Moses, of which the story of the burning bush may beadduced as a proof. There are many other instances mentioned in the Jewish writings,of attachment to trees, and especially to the oak and plane. Morier, Johnson, and SirWilliam Ouseley [Embassi/, &c. vol. i.), descr
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