POMEGRANATE.-PUNICA. 



In Botany, a Genus of the Icosandria Mono- 

 gynia Class. Natural Order, Pomacetf. 



IT takes it's name from pomum granatum, a 

 kernelled apple. 



The early part of the Bible notices the 

 pomegranate as a native of Syria. It is men- 

 tioned as one of the fruits discovered in the 

 Land of Promise ; previous to which disco- 

 very, while the Israelites sojourned in the 

 wilderness, it was selected as the ornament to 

 the robe of the Ephod. 



" And beneath, upon the skirts of it, thou 

 shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of 

 purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem 

 thereof; and bells of gold between them round 

 about. A golden bell and a pomegranate, a 

 golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem 

 of the robe round about." 



The sacred history also informs us, that 

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