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recoinpence for any trouble we may take with it. Does your cor- 

 respondent know the yellow variety ? it is worth having, as its 

 blossoms are similar in size and shape to the red, but of a delicate 

 sulphur colour ; there is also a Avhite variety, but I am not ac- 

 quainted with it. I hope my hints may be useful, though, being 

 only an amateur, I cannot give that information which a scientific gar- 

 dener is capable of imparting. 



ARTICLE VIII. 



ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE DOUBLE FLOWERED POME- 

 GRANATE, PUNICA GRANATUM MULTIPLEX. 



BY MB. WILLIAM HILL, OK ROCHDALE. 



The Pomegranate is an old inhabitant of our gardens, but it seems to 

 have been known to the Africans for many ages before it came into 

 our possession ; it is mentioned in holy writ, as being in the posses- 

 sion of the Egyptians more than 3000 years ago ; it is a native of the 

 South of Europe and North of Africa. Dr. Sibthorpe informs us 

 that it is found plentiful in Greece, both in a wild and cultivated 

 state ; it was introduced into this country about the year 1548. The 

 double flowering kind is much more esteemed than the other in this 

 country, for the sake of its large fine double flowers, which are of a 

 most beautiful scarlet colour; and if the trees are well managed, and 

 supplied with due nourishment, they will continue to produce flowers 

 for four or five months successively, which renders it one of the 

 most valuable flowering trees ; this sort may be rendered more pro- 

 ductive of flowers, by grafting it upon stocks of the single kind, which 

 check the luxuriancy of the trees, and cause them to produce flowers 

 upon almost every shoot. There have been various ways recom- 

 mended to manage the pomegranate, so as to make it flower freely, 

 and forty years experience has taught me what I conceive to be the 

 most successful method. I do all my pruning in the summer season, 

 training the branches at a regular distance, of about four inches 

 apart, in the same way as I train a plum tree ; towards the latter end 

 of June I look over the trees, and remove all the shoots that are 

 running to wood, at which time they are young and tender, and are 

 easily removed without the assistance of a knife. Care must be taken 



