And first, though it was not the season for Figgs, yet some Fruit might have been expected, even in ordinary bearing Trees. For the _Grossi_ or Buttons appear before the Leaves, especially before the Leaves are well grown. Some might have stood during the Winter, and by this time been of some growth: Though many fall off, yet some might remain on, and proceed towards maturity. And we find that good Husbands had an art to make them hold on, as is delivered by _Theophrastus_. The Σῦκον or common Summer Figg was not expected; for that is placed by _Galen_ among the _Fructus Horarii_, or _Horæi_, which ripen in that part of Summer, called Ὤρα, and stands commended by him above other Fruits of that season. And of this kind might be the Figgs which were brought unto _Cleopatra_ in a Basket together with an Asp, according to the time of her death on the nineteenth of _August_. And that our Saviour expected not such Figgs, but some other kind, seems to be implied in the indefinite expression, _if haply he might find any thing thereon_; which in that Country, and the variety of such Trees, might not be despaired of, at this season, and very probably hoped for in the first precocious and early bearing Trees. And that there were precocious and early bearing Trees in _Judæa_, may be illustrated from some expressions in Scripture concerning precocious Figgs;[237] _Calathus unus habebat Ficus bonas nimis, sicut solent esse Ficus primi temporis; One Basket had very good Figgs, even like the Figgs that are first ripe_. And the like might be more especially expected in this place, if this remarkable Tree be rightly placed in some Mapps of _Jerusalem_; for it is placed, by _Adrichomius_, in or near _Bethphage_, which some conjectures will have to be the _House of Figgs_: and at this place Figg Trees are still to be found, if we consult the Travels of _Bidulphus_. [237] Jer. 24. 2.