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parts of Asia. They were not mere soldiers, but 

 brave men drawn from their families by religious 

 enthusiasm, and who, in consequence, would hold 

 fast to their country and their homes. They could 

 not see without coveting these charming trees which 

 embellished the vicinity of Jerusalem, with whose 

 exquisite fruits nature has favored the climates of 

 Asia. 



It was, indeed, at this time that Europe enriched 

 its orchards by many of these trees, and that the 

 French princes carried into their country the dam- 

 son, the St. Catharine (a pear), the apricot from Alex- 

 andria, and other species indigenous to those regions. 



Sicilians, Genoese, and Provincials transported to 

 Salerno, St. Remo, and Hyeres the lemon and 

 orange trees. Hear what a historian of the thir- 

 teenth century says to us on this subject ; he had 

 been in Palestine with the Crusaders, and his word 

 should have great weight. 



Jacques de Vitry expressed himself thus : " Be- 

 sides many trees cultivated in Italy, Genoa, France, 

 and other parts of Europe, we find here (in Pales- 

 tine) species peculiar to the country, and of which 

 some are sterile and others bear fruit. Here are 

 trees bearing very beautiful apples the color of 

 the citron upon which is distinctly seen the mark 

 of a man's tooth. This has given them the com- 

 mon name of pomme d' Adam (Adam's apple) ; 

 others produce sour fruit, of a disagreeable taste 

 (pontici), which are called Unions. Their juice is 



