Here are a few words of explanation to

the reader about this book.

Years ago when I was starling out as a

young missionary in Palestine I was struck

one morning bv a correspondence between

the ninefold fruit of the Spirit in Gal. 5:22,

23, and the nine spices mentioned in the

description of the " garden enclosed" and

the " orchard of pomegranates" in Canticles

4:13. 14. During many happy "quiet limes"

I studied, with the help of Canon Tristram s

Flora of the Bible and another book called