942 AKBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 



its valuable part, and a worthless crown. In allusion to the latter circum- 

 stance, Queen Anue 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 

 Is. 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 1^ dollars each. The double sort, grafted 

 on the single, may be purchased, at Genoa, at 1 franc each. 



a 2. P. (G.) NA V 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. Gran&tum nanum Pers. 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t 634. ; Trew Ehret, t. 71. f. 3. ; and ourfig.665. 



. 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 

 from Guiana and the Antilles, where it is used for garden 

 hedges. It was introduced into England in 1723; grows 

 to the height of 5 ft. or 6 ft., and flowers from June to Sep- >- 

 tember. In the West Indies, it continues flowering all /I 

 the year ; which may have weakened the plant to such a degree as, in tl me, 

 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 

 BELONGING TO THE ORDER ONAGRA^CEJE. 



THE 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 



