Color the Carob Tree Plant

The Carob tree branch with separate flower, pod and two seeds.

Description of Botanical Coloring Pages:  The revisers  have  inserted  in the  margin  of  Luke  15: 16,  "the  pods  of  the  carob tree"  for  "husks"  in  the  text.  The  husks  were the  pods  of  Ceratonia siliqua,  small  tree  which grows  in  the  countries  bordering  on  the  Mediterranean. The  pods  are  from  six  to  twelve inches  long,  about  an  inch  broad,  and  of  a  shining  purplish-brown   color,   containing    several seeds,  separated  from  each  other  by  a  fleshy pulp.  From  the  large  quantity  of  sweet  mucilage they  contain,  they  form  a  good  and  agreeable food  for  animals,  and  are  largely  exported as  a  feeding  stuff  for  stock.  The  pods  are  sometimes called locust  beans  and  St.  John's  bread, from  the  notion  that  they  were  used  as  food  by John  the  Baptist;  but  this  is  an  error.

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