The path led through a grove of carob trees, from which the beans, known in Germany as St. John's bread, are produced.
And he desired to fill his stomach with the carob pods which the swine eat.
In Germany, as in England, theCarob obtained the name of St. John's Bread, from the popular belief that the Baptist fed upon it whilst in the wilderness.
According to a Sicilian tradition, the Carob is a tree of ill-repute, because it was on one of this species that the traitor Judas Iscariot hung himself.
Lepsius gives a drawing of a pod which appears to him to be certainly a carob, and the botanist Kotschy made certain by microscopic investigation that a stick taken from a sarcophagus was made from the wood of the carob tree.
The information gained on the subject may be summed up as follows:-- The carob grew wild in the Levant, probably on the southern coast of Anatolia and in Syria, perhaps also in Cyrenaica.
Bianca remarks, however, that the carob tree is not always healthy and productive in those restricted localities where it exists in Sicily, in the small adjacent islands, and on the coast of Italy.
The carob has not been found in the tufa and quaternary deposits of Southern Europe.
This proof seems to me insufficient, for in all the Nile Valley and in Abyssinia the carob is not wild nor even cultivated.
The lotus-eaters dwelt in Cyrenaica, so that the carob must have been abundant in their country.
The seeds and pods of the carob are highly prized in the hotter parts of the Mediterranean basin, as food for animals and even for man.
Usually they indicate the carob tree, as "cultivated and subspontaneous, or nearly wild.
He maintains as probable the theory of Hoefer and Bonne,[1690] that the lotus of the lotophagi was the carob tree, of which the flower is sweet and the fruit has a taste of honey, which agrees with the expressions of Homer.
The carob is an evergreen, vigorous and beautiful.
A CAROB TREE ” 97 From a photograph by Neurdein frères.
The carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua) is another that is met with, and which attracts the attention of the visitor from the north.
The Carob was cultivated in England before Shakespeare's time.
In the midst of this meydân there was a fine old carob tree, with a stone bench all round the foot of its enormous trunk.
Owing to its long tap root it resists drought well, and is to be found growing well in rocky land such as is common in many of the carob areas of Cyprus.
The hermaphrodite carob trees which form practically the whole of the fruit-producing trees of the Island are cleistogamous (i.
From the carob honey is also made the sweetmeat "pastelli.
Carob gathering commences about mid-August and lasts for about a month.
It is not easy to estimate the yield per donum of carob trees, but assuming that the trees were planted 30 ft.
The carob tree belongs to the natural order Leguminosae, sub-order Caesalpinae, and is the only species of the genus Ceratonia.
Recent investigations made by the Agricultural Department go to prove that the fruit-producing carob tree of Cyprus is really hermaphrodite, though there yet remains much room for investigation and the point is not finally settled.
The fruit of thecarob is exported mostly to England, but also to France and Egypt, and more recently, before the war, to Germany.
Many thousands of carobplants are annually raised in the Government gardens and issued at a trifling charge.
At the time of Christ, and for some centuries later, this tree was known to the Greeks by the name of keronia or keratea, being the Greek for horns, and is given to the locust or carob bean from its supposed resemblance to goats' horns.
One day, nearing the end of the journey, he saw a man planting a carob tree at the foot of a hill.
I think I remember a man planting a carob tree yesterday," he said.
The =carob tree=, whose cultivation has been commenced in the Southwest, is an excellent honey yielder in late summer.
It is an ornamental tree and gives, in addition to honey, another valuable product--the carob bean of commerce.
And he was hungry and no one gave him aught to eat, and so he ate the carob pods that he was feeding to the swine.
Their food was fruits, and nuts, wild honey and the carob bread.
Where the olive and the carob ceased, box and ilex took possession of the inaccessible points, carrying up the long waves of vegetation until their foam-sprinkles of silver-gray faded out among the highest clefts.
The carob tree is very common in the lowlands of Syria.
The marginal note in the Revised Version reads, "the pods of the carob tree.
The country round Ica is noted for abounding in carob trees, with the fruit of which vast numbers of asses are fed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carob" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
