Show the palm tree of scripture the palm tree a tree remarkable I 1 for or loftiness straightness and productiveness and hence made an emblem in scripture of uprightness fruitfulness and victory its fruit Is the date very sweet and nourishing and a large irge portion of the inhabitants of egypt arabia and persia subsist almost entirely upon it camels are food fond of the stone this fruit is of the size of an olive palm branches were were signals of 91 loy and triumph the leaves are arc six or eight feet eel long and broad when spread out and are used to covi cover houses and make baskets bags hats and such things from the fibres fabres of the branches are arc made thready ropes rigging etc in deed gibbon says that the natives celebrate either in prose or verse three hundred and sixty uses to which the trunk branches leaves juice and fruit are applied from its sap palm wine is role it a very strong intoxicating drink |