Re: Biblical garden

From:          Mark Belles <belles@flash.net>
Reply-to:      "belles@flash.net" <belles@flash.net>
To:            "'medit-plants@ucdavis.edu'" <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Subject:       Biblical garden
Date:          Wed, 10 Feb 1999 19:34:58 -0600

	
	My name is Brad Belles. I am contacting you about a project I am doing for 
my church. I need information on plants that grow in Israel which would 
grow in my area. I live In Dallas, Texas, and the plants need to be able to survive 
cold weather, with little sun (they are on the north side of the guiding.) 
All in all, I really need herbs mostly, because there is already a juniper 
planted, and there isn't much room left. My thanks for any information you 
can send me,

								Brad Belles 
Dear Brad,

Without doubt you need PALIURIS SPINA CHRISTI, which should be 
self-expalnatory to almost any person of the Christian faith. It is a 
'common' plant of south-eastern Europe inc. I think Palestine. I got 
some seeds a few years ago in southern Italy where it is now an 
endangered species because farmers, and others, rip out so many of 
the spiny, unproductive plants. It is a semi-deciduous shrub, not 
particularly distinguished bit for its curious Chinese 'coolee' 
shaped seed pods and its thin hooked spines. It is reputedly the 
plant from which the Crown of Thorns was made.

regards

trevor n

PS Good luck with the project. Just wait 'til you get to The Lilies 
of the Field, surely God only knows what they were! There is much 
dissension among 'experts' concerning what they were, what they might 
have been, what they could be.

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Trevor Nottle
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