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t. 1832.; and our fig. 664.) has the flowers red; pulp of fruit red- 
dish. Wild in Mauritania and the south of Europe, and enduring 
even the coldest winters. (Dec. Prod., iii. p. 3.) 
2 P. G.2 ribrum flore pléno Trew Ehret., t. 71. f. 2., has double red 
flowers. It is common in gardens, and is a little more impatient of 
cold than the preceding variety. (Dec. Prod., iii. p. 4.) 
2 P. G. 3 albéscens Dec. Prod., iii. p.4., Andr. Bot. Rep., t. 96.—Petals 
white. Calyx slightly yellowish. Pulp of the fruit of a pale red. It 
is cultivated in gardens, and is rather more tender than P. G, ru~ 
brum. (Dec. Prod., iii. p. 4.) - 
z P. G. 4 albéscens flore pléno Dec. has double flowers, which are nearly 
white. It is cultivated in gardens, and is the tenderest of all the 
forms of the species. (Dec. Prod., iii. p. 4.) 
% P. G. 5 flavum Hort. has the flowers yellow, but is rare in gardens. 
Description, §c. A tree, in magnitude and ligneous character, bearing con- 
siderable resemblance to the common hawthorn. In the south of France, and 
in Spain and Italy, it grows to the height of 
18 ft. or 20 ft.; forming a very branchy 
twiggy tree, seldom found with a clear stem, 
unless it has been pruned up. In a wild 
state, about Marseilles, it forms a thorny 
bush; but, in the gardens about Nice and 
Genoa, it is a very handsome small tree, ' 
much admired both for its flowers and its 
fruit. It is a native of Barbary, Persia, 
Japan, and various parts of Asia; and it has 
been long introduced into the West Indies 
and South America. In the Himalayas, 
Mr. Royle informs us that the pomegranate 
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villages. It forms quite a wood in Mazanderan, whence the dried seeds are ex- 
ported for medicinal use. The famous pomegranates without seeds are grown in 
the rich gardens, called Ballabagh, lying under the snowy hills near the Caubul 
river. They are described as delicious about Hadgiabad, and throughout 
Persia. Though grown in most parts of India, large quantities, of a supe- 
rior quality, are yearly brought down by the northern merchants from 
Caubul, Cashmere, and Boodurwar.” (Jilust., p. 208.) Ata very early period, 
the pomegranate appears to have attracted the attention of mankind. It is 
mentioned by Theophrastus under the name of Roa; the Pheenicians named 
it Sida; the Greeks, Cytinos; and the Romans, according to Pliny, Malus 
Punica. The Jews appear to have held the tree in great veneration. It is 
mentioned, in the Old Testament, as one of the fruits discovered in the Land 
of Promise; and, while the Israelites sojourned in the wilderness, it was 
selected as one of the ornaments to the robe of the ephod. The two large 
pillars of brass, made by Hiram for the porch of Solomon’s Temple, were 
ornamented with carvings of the pomegranate; and, from other passages in 
Holy Writ, a wine appears to have been made from it. Pliny speaks of 
getting a colour from the flowers for dyeing cloth a light red. He mentions 
nine varieties ; including the sweet, the sour, the temperate, the austere, and 
the wine-flavoured. The rind of the sour kind, he says, is the best for tan- 
ners and curriers to dress their leather with. The celebrated kingdom of 
Granada is supposed to have derived its name from the trees planted in it by 
the Moors; which is rendered highly probable by the arms of the city of 
Granada being a split pomegranate. The earliest mention of the pome- 
granate in England is in Turner’s Herbal, in 1548 ; but it was probably intro- 
duced long before that time by the monks, and planted in the gardens of the 
religious houses. For a long period, it was kept exclusively in houses, along 
with orange trees ; and we find, accordingly, that it fruited in the orangery 
of Charles I., as Parkinson informs us, under the care of Tradescant, when 
