

^0%nt%x^nuft. 



Jpuniia giauatum. Natural Order: My rtacea:— Myrtle Family. 



HQl'IRING the protection of glass in the northern climate, the 

 I^onu i^ranate is generally cultivated in greenhouses, while in the 

 ' south ot" Europe it is grown for hedges, being in jts wild state 

 ci tiioiny bush. The flowers are large, handsome, and scarlet 

 ^ ^ ^ ^ in color, both double and single. Its fruit has a hard rind, 

 '^ ^"^ numerous seeds, a soft pulp of fine flavor, and is as large as 

 an orange; while the root j'ields an extract valuable for its medical 

 properties. Columella, a writer on husbandry in a. d. 42, makes mention 

 of it. Josephus sa3'S, in his Antiquities of the Jews, '■ that the bells on 

 the high priests' robes were the symbols of thunder, and the pome- 

 granates, of lightning." 



Jigl^lntng. 



R 



ED liglitnings plav'd n 

 .\nci their demolish'd 



FROM cl< 

 Till, in 



cloud to cloud the rending 

 Till, in the furious elemental v 

 Dissolv'd, the whole precipitated 11 

 Unbroken floods and solid torrent? 



- Tliom.1t 



-WillU Gaylord Clark. 



took: from the turbid south 

 '-' What floods of flame in red diffusion burst! 

 Frequent and furious, darted thro' the dark. 

 And broken ridges of a thousand clouds. 

 Piled hill on hill; and hark! the thunder rous'd, 

 Groans in long roarings through the distant gloom! 

 -Mallei. 



'pHROUGH the air 



Mountains of clouds, 



irid summits roll'd, 

 The lightning kindling with its vivid glare 

 Their outlines as thev rose, heap'd fold on fold. 



— Epes Sar^eul. 



qpHE win 

 i Impend 



linds grow high; 



ling tempests charge the sky; 

 The lightning flies, the thunder roars. 

 And big waves lash the frighted shores. 



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