This is generally supposed to refer to the citron but apples grow in Palestine, and the Arabic name for the apple (tuffuh) differs little from the Hebrew word, tappuach. Others believe the quince is alluded to, which is fragrant and of a golden colour. Cant. 2:3, 5; Cant. 7:8; Cant. 8:5; Joe 1:12. In Pr 25:11 "a word fitly spoken" is like some elegant device, as "apples of gold in pictures or baskets of silver."