The Plants of the Bible (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Plants of the BibleIn Ecclesiastes xii. 5, it is said, The almond tree shall ¿ourish. This has often been supposed to refer to the resemblance between the ¿owers of the almond and the hoary locks of old age. But this interpretation is not borne out by an examination of the blossom of the almond, which is pinkish, and not pure White. The passage rather appears to refer to the hastening of old age. AS the almond-tree ushers in spring, so do the signs referred to in the context indicate the coming of old age and death. In both passages the tree is taken as denoting the speedy approach of marked epochs or events.The almond-tree was associated in the minds of the children of Israel with the choosing of the house of Levi for the service of the tabernacle. Moses, we are told in Numbers xvii, laid up the twelve rods of the princes of Israel before the Lord, in the tabernacle of witness, and on the morrow the rod of Aaron, which represented the house of Levi, brought forth buds and blossoms, and yielded almonds. Thus the Lord made to cease the murmurings of the children of Israel against Moses. This rod was deposited, as a memorial, in the ark of the covenant (heb. Ix.In Northern Europe almonds are mentioned about the middle of the second century before Christ. They were produced largely in the islands of the Greek Archipelago. The Knights Templars in Cyprus levied tithes of almonds in 1411. In medieval cookery the consumption of almonds was very great.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.