* A.M. 2256.  B.C. 1748.  mandrakes.
   The mandrake may be the Hebrew {dudaim:}  it is so rendered by
   all the ancient versions, and is a species of melon, of an
   agreeable odour.  Hasselquist, speaking of Nazareth in
   Galilee, says, "What I found most remarkable at this village
   was the great number of mandrakes which grew in a vale below
   it.  I had not the pleasure of seeing this plant in blossom,
   the fruit now (May 5th, O. S.) hanging ripe on the stem, which
   lay withered on the ground.  From the season in which this
   mandrake blossoms and ripens fruit, one might form a
   conjecture that it was Rachel's {dudaim.}  These were brought
   her in the wheat harvest, which in Galilee is in the month of
   May, about this time, and the mandrake was now in fruit."  The
   Abbee Mariti describes it as growing "low like a lettuce, to
   which its leaves have a great resemblance, except that they
   have a dark green colour.  The flowers are purple, and the
   root is for the most part forked.  The fruit, when ripe in the
   beginning of May, is of the size and colour of a small apple,
   exceedingly ruddy, and of a most agreeable odour.  Our guide
   thought us fools for suspecting it to be unwholesome."

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