192 LIFE OF A TREE. 
sembles that of a hay-stack. The fruit of this 
tree is called Monkey Bread. It is said to be 
agreeably acid, and to form a pleasant article of 
dessert when mixed with a little sugar. 
The Cedars of Lebanon have long been famous, 
and, as will be well remembered, are frequently 
mentioned in Scripture. Some of these trees 
on the tops of the oldest mountains, had attained 
avery great age, and were examined by the old 
traveller Maundrell. The circumference of one 
measured by him was between thirty and forty 
feet, and its great branches were each of them 
as large as an ordinary sized tree. It was 
supposed they were from one to two thousand 
years old; but it is more probable that they 
were not much more than eight hundred years. 
Since he visited them all the ancient trees have 
been cut down, and now Mount Lebanon can 
only boast of some younger trees of the same 
description. 
We are told by Evelyn that St. Jerome actually 
saw in his day the Sycamore-tree up which Zac- 
cheus climbed to catch a glimpse of our Saviour 
as he passed by. As St. Jerome lived in the 
fourth century, the tree, if his statement is cor- 
