Identifier: naturalist21832brow (find matches)
Title: The Naturalist
Year: 1830 (1830s)
Authors: Browne, D. J. (Daniel Jay), b. 1804
Subjects: Natural history Science
Publisher: (Boston, Mass. : Pierce and Parker, and Carter and Hendee)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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T11 il lh\ nuif:NHW-U CJK IbliG THE NATURALIST. JUNE, 1832. THE FIG TREE. The fig tree is evidently a native of that part of Asia, where thegarden of Eden is generally said to have been situated, as it is theonly tree particularly named in those passages of the Bible, whichrelate to the creation and fall of man. And they sewed fig leavestogether and made themselves aprons. It is a fruit that appears tohave been highly esteemed by the Israelites, who brought figsout ol the land of Canaan, when they were sent by Moses to as-certain the produce of that country. The fig tree is often mentioned both in the -Old and the New Tes-tament, in a manner to induce us to conclude that it formed aprincipal part of the food of the Syrian nation. In the twenty-fifth chapter of the first book of Samuel, we read, that when Ab-agail went to meet David, to appease him for the afiront given byNabal her husband, she took with her, among other provisions, apresent of two hundred cakes of figs. When Lycurgus

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