By-Paths of Bible Knowledge

SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY.

I.

THE TREES AND PLANTS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE.

BY

WILLIAM H. GROSER, B.Sc. (Lond.)

Author of Joshua and his Successors,' etc.

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THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY,

56 Paternoster Row, and 65 St. Paul's Churchyard

1888

'Syria is well worthy to be the home of civilization, possessing as she does lands fertile even under complete abandonment; fields producing spontaneously cereals for food and silks and cottons for clothing; timber of every description, and of the best quality, from the cedar to the oak, from the plane to the pine, and which may be had for the felling; while sycomores of enormous size spread their branches wide enough to cover a whole caravan with their grateful shade. . . Whatever in the vegetable kingdom is useful or beautiful is here found in the natural unforced produce of the soil, spread out in rich and prodigal abundance.' — Farley, Two Years in Syria.