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and thoroughness. On p. 198 he says: "that this plant 

 was known to the Greeks and 

 Romans. Theophrastus, after the 

 death of Alexander, gives a very 

 accurate description of the Persian 

 and Median apple, which corre- 

 sponds with that of the citron." . . . 

 It was common in Persia and ^, ^. , . 



fiG. 31. — lingered citron, 

 Tx/r T Ti. T>i- 1 from 'Gardener's Chron- 



Media. It was Pimy who com- ide/ 20 March, 1890, p. 



385 1 (much reduced.) 



menced to call it by different 



names — Mains Medica, Mains Assyria, and Citrns. 



Then the modern Jews, in their Feast of the Taber- 

 nacles, used the citron in one of their ceremonies. This 

 custom appears to have come to them from the ancient 

 Jews, for on p. 208 Gallesio says that, "cultivated in 

 Cilicia, the citron probably spread to Palestine, close 

 by ; and we have seen that from the time the Jews 

 knew it, they made use of it in the Feast of the 

 Tabernacles ; we also see by the Samaritan medals, 

 recorded by Otius, that this usage was a very ancient 

 one." .... Moreover, Josephus, in book 13, says — "that 

 the Jews, having revolted against their king, Alexander, 

 when he was at the foot of the altar, to celebrate 

 the Feast of the Tabernacles, they threw citrons in his 

 face ; " and in speaking of the Jewish custom in this 



' See that number for an interesting account of tliis so-called citrine 

 monstrosity. 



