AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



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Fig. 290. 



ICKWORTII. 



, Tree of moderate vigor and 

 a fair beai'er. 



Young brandies smooth and 

 - somewhat slender. 



Fruit medium to large, obo- 

 vate ; purple, with irregular 

 tracings of light fawn color. 



Flesh greenish-yellow, rich, 

 juicy, and very good, becoming 

 sugary with keeping ; clings to 

 the stone. Ripens in October, 

 and may be kept in a dry room 

 for several weeks, or sometimes 

 months, if WTapped singly and 

 carefully in paper. 



This valuable late pliun is a 

 somewhat recent English vari- 

 ety, usually called Ickworth 

 Imperatrice ; but as we have 

 already a " Blue Imperati'ice," the latter name is dropped. 



THE POMEGRANATE. 



The wild Pomegranate of Em-ope and China is of a sharp 

 acid flavor, but the cultivated kinds are subacid or sweet. 



The fruit is of ordinary peach size or larger, and contains 

 numerous red seeds, and a juicy pulp of pleasant flavor, cooling 

 and excellent for use in fevers, etc. It has a tough skin, but 

 its yellow color and red cheek, with its large calyx eye or 

 crown, render it very beautiful. It grows well with less care 

 than the orange-tree in the latitude of 40° north, fruiting 

 freely in Maryland and Virginia, but not ripening its crop 

 with certainty farther north than the Carolinas. 



The tree is pretty, having small lance-formed leaves, with 

 reddish veins. It grows about twenty feet high at the most, 

 and bears a profusion of showy scarlet flowers. There is also 

 a double-flowering scarljt variety, which is still more ornaT 



