Endnote 2 – God’s Vineyard

Vines take three years of care before they bear fruit, whereas olive trees take five to six years, and fig trees three to four years (Daniel Zohary and Maria Hopf, Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The Origin and Spread of Cultivated Plants in West Asia, Europe, and the Nile Valley [Oxford: Clarendon, 1988], pp. 143, 137, 150, respectively).