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FLOWERS FROM THE HOLY LAND;

BEING AN ACCOUNT OF

THE CHIEF PLANTS NAMED IN SCRIPTURE;

WITH

Bistorical, Geographical, and Portical Illustrations.

BY ROBERT TYAS, B.A.,

QUEENS' COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY
OF LONDON.

WITH TWELVE COLOURED GROUPS OF FLOW

DESIGNED AND COLOURED BY JAMES ANDRES

"Consider the lilies of the field."-S. MATT. vi.

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LONDON:

THOMAS HARRILD PRINTER, SILVER STREET,

FALCON SQUARE.

PREFACE.

THE present volume was undertaken in the hope of supplying to Scripture readers a popular account of the chief of those flowers and plants which are named in the Word of God. Having adopted the mode of pictorial illustration, which was so much approved in "FAVOURITE FIELD FLOWERS," We were necessarily compelled to select subjects which were capable of being thus depicted with the greatest effect. This has excluded from our pages some of the larger trees, but as these are generally well known, their absence is not material. The Editor trusts that the matter here presented to the reader of Holy Writ, will give an interest to some passages which might heretofore have been looked at without regard to the object with which the names of plants and trees were introduced. Whatever tends to throw light upon the text of Scripture, or suggests correct ideas in connection therewith, must be acceptable to all who esteem

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