XXVIII. GRANATA‘CER. XXIX. TAMARICACEAE, 457 
& P.G. 2 rkbrum flore pléno Trew Ehret t.71. f. 2. has double red 
flowers. It is common in gardens, and is a little more impatient of 
cold than the preceding variety. (Dec. Prod,, iii. p. 4. 
2 P. G. 3 albéscens Dec. Prod. iii. p. 4., Andr. Bot. Rep. ‘t. 16.— Petals 
white. Calyx slightly yellowish. Pulp of the fruit of a pale red. 
It is cultivated in gardens, and is rather more tender than P. G. 
rubrum. (Dee. Prod., iii. p. 4.) 
2 P. G. 4 albéscens flore pléno Dec. has double flowers, which are nearly 
white. It is cultivated in gardens, and is the tenderest of all the 
forms of the species. (Dec. Prod., iii. p. 4.) 
& P. G. 5 flévum Hort. has the flowers yellow, but is rare in gardens. 
A tree, in magnitude and ligneous character, bearing considerable resem- 
blance to the common hawthorn. In the South of France, and in Spain and 
Italy, it grows to the height of 18 or 20 feet ; forming a very branchy twiggy 
tree, seldom found with a clear stem, unless it has been pruned up. Ina 
wild state, about Marseilles, it forms a thorny bush ; but, in the gardens about 
Nice and Genoa, it is a very handsome small tree, much admired both for 
its flowers and its fruit. In the South of Europe, the pomegranate is culti- 
vated for its fruit ; and, in some places, as a hedge plant. It is also grown as 
an ornamental tree; the stem being trained to the height of 6 or 8 feet, and 
the head afterwards allowed to spread, and droop down on every side. 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. Whether the object be flowers or fruit, the head of the tree should be 
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. The plant 
is easily propagated by cuttings of the shoots or of the roots, by layers, or 
by grafting one sort on another. The double variety grafied on the single is 
more productive of flowers than when raised by cuttings or layers; and in 
good rich soil, judiciously supplied with water, it will continue producing its 
large scarlet flowers for four or five months. When the plant is raised from 
seeds, they ought to be sown immediately on being removed from the fruit ; 
because they very soon lose their vital powers. 
& 2. P.(G.) na‘na ZL. 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. Grandtum nanum Pers. 
Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 634.; Trew Ehret, t. 71. f. 3. ; and our fig. 818. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stem shrubby. Leaf linear. (Dec. Prod.) 
A. low deciduous bush; said to be a native of the Cari- 
bee Islands and of South America, about Demerara. In- _' 
‘troduced in 1723. Flowers red; June to September. 
Without doubt, only a variety of P. Granatum. 818. P. G.)nana. 
Orpver XXIX. TAMARICA'CEZ. 
Orv. CHAR. Calyx 4—5-parted. Petals 4—5. Stamens 4—5 or 8—10, free 
or monadelphous. . Style short. Stigmas 3. Capsule trigonal, 3-valved, 1- 
celled, many-seeded. Placentas 3 at base of cell, or along the middle of the 
valves. Seeds comose at apex. Albumen none. Near Frankenidcee in 
Thalamiflore. 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous or sub-evergreen ; linear- 
lanceolate. Flowers small.— Shrubs, Natives of Europe, Asia, and Africa ; 
of easy culture in light sandy soil. The genera in British gardens are two, 
which are thus contradistinguished : — 
