Identifier: holylandsyria00carp (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and Syria
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel Syria -- Description and travel
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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With cypresses and palms Jewish colonists have beautified this plan-tation near Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee. The Jews answer the objec-tions of the Arabs to their settlements by pointing out how they havemade the desert bloom like the rose
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Carpenters of Nazareth and their shops are niucli the same to-da\ aswhen Joseph phed his trade and the boy Jesus helped him. Nazareth isa mountain village of some eight thousand people—Greeks, Moslems,Maronites, Roman Catholics, and about a hundred Protestants FARMING IN LAND OF MILK AND HONEY Modem bee-keeping was started in Palestine by an enter-prising Swiss in one of the Jewish colonies. His beeswere kept in hives made of terra-cotta jars, which weremoved to different pastures several times during a sea-son so as to get the benefit of different kinds of flowers.The average yield of honey per hive is about one hundredpounds, and the product is delicious. As to the Palestine flowers, I cannot describe them.There are said to be more than three thousand varieties.Crossing the upper plains of Sharon I rode through greatfields of daisies as yellow as buttercups. There weregreenish-white flowers carpeting the roadside, and amongthem poppies, gladioli, and lilies. In the gardens atZamma

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