The only products of Assyria which acquired such note as to be called by its name were its silk and its citron trees.

The silk, according to Pliny, was the produce of a large kind of silkworm not found elsewhere.

The citron trees obtained a very great celebrity.

Not only were they admired for their perpetual fruitage, and their delicious odor; but it was believed that the fruit which they bore was an unfailing remedy against poisons.

Numerous attempts were made to naturalize the tree in other countries; but up to the time when Pliny wrote, every such attempt had failed, and the citron was still confined to Assyria, Persia and Media.
It is not to be imagined that the vegetable products of Assyria were confined within the narrow compass which the ancient notices might seem to indicate.