ARBORETUM NOTES. ru 
LY THRACEAS 
Bentham and Hooker. 
PUNICA GRANATUM. 
Loudon, v. 3. p. 939. 
A good plant of the double-flowered Pomegranate 
trained against the south-east front of our house, 
and etisine up it to the tops, of the first floor 
windows. Planted by my father in 1825, I be- 
lieve. Was severely hurt by the winter of 1860-61, 
but recovered completely. Flowers nearly every 
year, but in ordinary seasons rather sparingly. In 
September, 1865, its blossoms were remarkably 
abundant and fine. It is altogether a very 
beautiful plant, beautiful alike in its brilliantly 
glossy rich green foliage, the delicate red of its 
young leaves and shoots, and its glorious scarlet 
flowers. 
The stem divides almost from the base into two, 
the larger of which is about eighteen inches round 
at the height of two feet, and both are excessively 
branched and subdivided all the way up. 
Towards the base, the stems are very rugged, 
gnarled, twisted and wreathed like those of some 
woody climbers. 
Panica 
granatum. 
