(Gen. 3:7). The figs of Athens were celebrated for their flavour. Figs at the present day are brought to this country from Smyrna in small boxes called drums; the quantity imported in 1858 was nearly seventeen hundred tons. BRANCH OF FIG-TREE. The fig-tree was common in Palestine, which was described as being “a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates” (Deut. 8:8). The parties who went from the wilderness of Paran to search the land “brought of the pomegranates and