Flower and nature: Mount Carmel
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Spring is in the air... "Carmel in Spring"
according to "the Land of Israel",chapter XXI,
Mount Carmel... Then the ground, wherever there was a fragment of open space, was covered with tall red hollyhocks, pink convolvulus, valerians, a beautiful large red linum, a gladiolus, a gigantic mottled arum, red tulips, ranunculus (large and red); pheasant's eye (Adonis), of endless varieties, as large and abundant as the anemone; tufts of exquisite cyclamen, a mass of bloom under every tree; five species of orchids- the curioud Ophrys atrata, with its bee-like lip, another like the spider-orchids, and a third like theman-orchis; while four species of Onosma, and especially the brilliant yellow Onosma syriacum, hung from every rock. It was the garden of Eden run wild; yet all beauty scarcely lasts a month.
*In 1858 H.B.Tristram visited Palestine, returning there in 1863 and 1872,
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