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Identifier: palmtree00mood
Title: The palm tree
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Moody, Sophy
Subjects: Palms Trees in the Bible
Publisher: London : T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row Edinburgh, and New York
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n. In Egj^pt the ivory lookingseeds or kernels are turned into beads for rosariesand various ornaments. They are also carried toBethlehem where they are fashioned by the Chris-tian population into beads, strung as necklaces andbracelets. They are bought by European travellers,and are also sold in England by converted Jews, asremembrances of the Holy Land, They unfortu-nately darken a little with age. The leaves aremade into bags and baskets, and are woven into matsfor carpeting. The wood of the tree is used forvarious domestic purposes. A gum resin, resembling myrrh, and sometimessubstituted for it in medicinal preparations, calledbdellium, is said by Lindley to exude from the trunkof Hyphoeoia Thehaica. Bdellium is yielded also byother plants, but Egyptian bdellium is said to be theproduce of the Doum Palm, the Palmyra, and theDwarf Fan Palm. The substance called bdellium in the Englishtranslation of the Bible (Gen. ii.) is evidently a gem.The word is believed by some to mean pearls.
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