John Trapp on Song of Solomon 4:13

Verſ. 13. Thy plants are as an Orchard of Pomegranat[illegible: 1 letter]s] By plants are to bee underſtood,Emiſſiones. propagines. either particular Churches, or ſeveral Saints; theſe are thoſe ſhoots or ſorouts that ſpread abroad Gods Paradiſe (that the word here uſed, and no where elſe in Scripture, ſave Eccleſ. 2.5. Neh. 2.8.) ſo called for the curious variety and excellency of all ſorts of pretious and pleaſant trees there growing: ſome for profit, as Pomegranates, which are known to bee healthful and preſervative: ſome for pleaſure; and theſe again were either more common and copious in Jury, as Camphires and Spikenards (plurals both in the Original, for the plenty of them in thoſe parts) or more rare and coſtly, as thoſe mentioned in the next verſe.