I went down into the garden of nuts— The nut-tree is a plant which delights in a cold climate, and therefore must have been valued as a rare and curious exotic in Palestine. Josephus speaks of it as an uncommon proof of the fine temperature of the air, that this shrub flourished in Galilee near the lake of Gennesareth, together with plants of a warmer region. The vine flourished, would be rendered more exactly, the vine budded forth; and so in Song of Solomon 6:12 of the next chapter. See the New Translation, and Addison's Present State of the Jews.
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Song of Solomon 6:11
11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.