Pomegranate. 
Punica granatum. Narurar Orver: Myrtacee— Myrtle Family. 
OES 
x. EQUIRING the protection of glass in the northern climate, the 
/ Pomegranate is generally cultivated in greenhouses, while in the 
€¢ south of Europe it is grown for hedges, being in its wild state 
ve a thorny bush. The flowers are large, handsome, and scarlet 
“G wp 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 yields an extract valuable for its medical 
‘A properties. Columella, a writer on husbandry in a.p. 42, makes mention 
of it. Josephus says, in his Antiquities of the Jews, “that the bells on 
y the high priests’ robes were the symbols of thunder, and the pome- 
granates, of lightning.” : 
ightning. 
ED lightnings play’d along the firmament, 
And their demolish’d works to pieces went. 
—Dryden. 
ROM cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage; HE low reeds bent by the streamlet’s side, 
Till, in the furious elemental war And hills to the thunder peal replied; 
Dissolv’d, the whole precipitated mass The lightning burst on its fearful way, 
Unbroken floods and solid torrents pour. While the heavens were lit in its red array. 
—Thomson. —Willis Gaylord Clark. 
OOK! 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! 
—Mallet. 
HROUGH the air HE winds grow high; 
Mountains of clouds, with lurid summits roll’d, Impending tempests charge the sky; 
The lightning kindling with its vivid glare The lightning flies, the thunder roars, 
Their outlines as they rose, heap’d fold on fold. And big waves lash the frighted shores. 
—Epes Sargent. —Prior, 
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