PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 15 
The curse pronounced by the prophet Ezekiel, 26th chapter, and Isaiah, 
23d chapter, upon the cities of Tyre and Sidon, could scarcely have been more 
effectually executed than by their own self-inflicted punishment in so thor- 
oughly destroying the forests of Lebanon, upon which the welfare and pros- 
perity of those cities depended, and the removal of which has so completely 
desolated their tributary country. 
