XXVIII. GRANATA^CEiE. XXIX. TAM ARICA^CE^. 



457 



SL! P. G. 2 rubnim fore plena Trevv Eliret 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., 'in. \). 4.) 

 it P. G. 3 albescens Dec. Prod. iii. p. 4., Andr, Bot. Rep. t. 16. 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. 



rubrum. (Dec. Prod., iii. p. 4.) 

 ^ P. G. 4 albescens fibre plena 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. bfldvum Hort. has the flowers yellow, but is rare in gardens. 



A tree, in magnitude and ligneous character, bearing considerable resem- 

 lilance to the common hawthorn. In the South of France, and in Spain and 

 Italy, it grows to the height of 18 or 20 feet ; 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. In the South of Europe, the pomegranate is culti- 

 vated for its fruit \ and, in some places, as a hedge plant. It is also grown as 

 an ornamental tree ; the stem being trained to the height of 6 or 8 feet, and 

 the head .afterwards allowed to spread, and droop down on every side. 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. Whether the object be flowers or fruit, the head of the tree should be 

 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. The plant 

 is easily propagated by cuttings of the shoots or of the roots, by layers, or 

 by grafting one sort on another. The double variety grafied on the single is 

 j more productive of flowers than when raised by cuttings or layers ; and in 

 good rich soil, judiciously supplied with water, it will continue producing its 

 large scarlet flowers for four or five months. When the plant is raised from 

 seeds, they ought to be sown immediately on being removed from the fruit ; 

 because they very soon iose their vital powers. 



31 2. P. (G.) NA^NA L. The dwarf Pomegranate. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 676. ; Sims Bot. Mag., t. 634. ; Dec. Prod.. 3. p. 4. j 



Don's Mill., 2. p. 653. 

 Synrmt/mes. P. ainericina nana Tourn. ; P. Granatum nanum Pers. 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 634. ; Trew Ehret, t. 71. f. 3. ; and our fig. 818. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Stem shrubby. Leaf linear. (Dec. Prod.) 

 A low deciduous bush ; said to be a native of*the C'ari- 

 bee Islands and of South America, about Demerara. In- 2^^. 



troduced in 172.3. Flowers red ; June to September. 

 Without doubt, only a variety of P. Granatum. 



818. P. G.jnira. 



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Order XXIX. TAMARICA^CE^. 



Orh. Char. Calyx 4 3-parted. Petals 4 5. Stamens 4 5 or 8 10, free 



or monadelphous. 5/^^ sliort. Stigmas 3. Capsule trhj^ona], 3-valved, 1- 

 celled, many-seeded. Placentas 3 at base of cell, or along the middle of the 

 valves. Seeds comose at apex. Albumen none. Near Frankeniaw<2? in 

 Thalamiflorae. 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous or sub-evergreen ; linear- 

 lanceolate. Flowers small. Shrubs, Natives of Europe, Asia, and Africa ; 

 of easy culture in light sandy soil. The genera in British gardens are two, 

 which are thus contradistinguished : 



