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its valuable part, and a worthless crown. In allusion to the latter cireum- 
stance, Queen Anne of Austria had for a device a pomegranate, with the 
motto, “ My worth is not in my crown” (Reid’s Hist. Bot., i. p. 150.) ; and 
Phillips says that the French, in the Island of St. Vincent, had a riddle on 
the pomegranate, which was “ Quelle est la reine qui porte son royaume dans 
son sein ?” alluding to the same properties. (Pom. Brit., p. 318.) 
Soil, Situation, Propagation, §c. The single wild pomegranate will grow in 
almost any soil; but the double-flowered varieties, and the species when it is 
intended to bear fruit, require a rich free soil. The double-flowering pome- 
granate trees, grown in boxes by the French gardeners, are planted in the 
very richest soil that can be composed ; and a portion of this soil is renewed 
every year, when the roots are severally pruned. The head, also, is thinned 
out, and so cut as to multiply, as much as possible, short slender shoots ; on 
the points of which alone the flowers are produced. In training the pome- 
granate against a wall, in England, it is necessary to keep this constantly in 
view ; for, if these slender shoots are cut off, no flowers will ever be produced. 
The plant is easily propagated by cuttings of the shoots or of the roots, by layers, 
or by grafting one sort on another. It also rises freely from seeds ; but these 
ought to be sown immediately on being removed from the fruit ; because they 
very soon lose their vital powers. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, is 
1s. each ; at Bollwyller, where the pomegranate is a green-house plant, plants of 
the species are 2 francs each, and of the varieties from 3 to 6 francs; at New 
York, plants are from 75 cents to 14 dollars each. The double sort, grafted 
on the single, may be purchased, at Genoa, at 1 franc each. 
% 2. P.(G.) na‘na L, The dwarf Pomegranate. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 676.; Sims Bot. Mag., t. 634.; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 4. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 653, 
Synonymes. P. americana nana Tourn.; P. Granatum nanum Pers. 
Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 634.; Trew Ehret., t. 71. f. 3. ; and our fig.665. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stem shrubby. Leaf linear. Flower red. 
_ Native of the Caribbee Islands, and of South America, 
about Demerara, &c. (Dec. Prod., iii. p. 4.) Persoon con- 
siders it a variety of P. Granatum, in which opinion we 
concur. P. nana is said to have been brought to France 2==ye\ 
from Guiana and the Antilles, where it is used for garden ~ 
hedges. It was introduced into England in 1723; grows pf: 
to the height of 5 ft. or 6 ft., and fowers from June to Sep- =". 
tember. In the West Indies, it continues flowering all Ae 

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the year; which may have weakened the plant to such a degree as, in time, 
to have given it its dwarf habit. It is much smaller in all its parts than 
the species, and considerably more delicate. 

CHAP. XLV. 
OF THE HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE TRIBE FUCHSIE4; 
BELONGING TO THE ORDER ONAGRA‘CEX. ; 
Tue genus Fuchsia is well known to British gardeners, as containing some 
of the most beautiful of the half-hardy ligneous plants in cultivation. All the 
species and varieties hitherto introduced or originated, when planted in a dry. 
soil, and a sheltered situation, in the neighbourhood of London, though they 
may be killed down to the ground by the frost, may have their stools pre- 
served alive through the winter, by covering them with litter, haulm, or leaves, 
in such a way as to throw off the wet; and, this covering being removed in 
spring, the plants will shoot up vigorously, and flower freely during the whole 
summer. They are, thus, admirably adapted for planting in dug beds and 
