Cherries three sorts; the common red cherry[20], the white heart cherry[21], and _Visnia_ cherry[22]; apricots two sorts, one of which has a sweet kernel, and is an exceeding good fruit, they ingraft it upon the almond, and reckon its delicacy proceeds from that particular circumstance[23]. Peaches but indifferent[24]; several sorts of plumbs[25]; cornelian cherry[26]; two or three sorts of apples, but very bad[27]; some indifferent good pears[28]; quinces[29]; pomegranates of three sorts, sweet, sour, and another between both[30]; almonds[31]; black mulberries[32]; white mulberries in great abundance; with the leaves of this tree the silk-worms are fed[33]; walnuts[34]; figs[35] of four kinds; hazel-nuts[36], the kernels of which they parch and eat between meals. Pistachio nuts[37], of a very good quality, and of which a considerable quantity is yearly sent to _Europe_; jujubs[38]; olive[39]; sumach, used much as a relisher in many of their dishes[40]; one tree only of St. _John_’s bread[41], is to be found in the gardens, though it is very common on the coast, and the fruit sold in the bazars at _Aleppo_. These trees are all standards planted promiscuously, and very little obliged to culture. In some places they are thrown together in thickets, in others they form inclosures for the beds of garden-stuff, in which inclosures are also found the plane tree[42], white poplar[43], common white willow[44]; another willow that bears a sweet-scented flower, called by the natives baan, from whence they distill a simple cordial water much used[45]. Horn-beam[46], a very few oaks[47], ash[48], lilac[49], bead tree[50], a very few of the nettle trees[51], oleaster[52], tamarisk[53], turpentine tree[54], a very few medlars[55], elder[56], roses of various kinds[57], thorn[58], balaustine tree[59], forming on the whole a wild and irregular but agreeable prospect. The cypress trees[60] are generally planted nigh the house; the black-berry[61] also grows wild all over the gardens. They have neither goosberries nor currants now, though in _Rawolf_’s time there seems to have been a few. The pot-herbs, _&c._ produced by the gardens will be best ranged according to the seasons in which they are most plentiful, in order to give a clear idea of the food of the inhabitants in the different seasons, for which reason also I shall here take the liberty to mention several that have been already enumerated.