OF FOREST-TREES. 



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GRANATUM\ MALUS PUNICA. 



This is nothing so nice. There are of this glorious shrub three sorts, CHAP, IV, 

 easily enough educated underany warm shelter, even to the raising hedges ""v"^ 

 of them, nor indeed affects it so much heat, as plentiful watering. They 

 supported a very severe winter in my garden, 1663, without any trouble 

 or artifice ; and if they present us their blushing double flowers for the 

 pains of recision and well pruning, (for they must diligently be piirged 

 of superfluous wood,) it is recompense enough ; when placed in a very 

 benign aspect, they have sometimes produced a pretty small pome. It 

 is a Perdifolia in winter, and growing abroad, requires no extraordinary 

 rich earth, but that the mould be loosened and eased about the root, and 

 hearty compost applied in spring and autumn : thus cultivated, it will 

 rise to a pretty tree, though of which there is not in nature so adulterous 

 a shrub. It is best increased by layers, approach and inarching, as they 



incano. It grows naturally in Bohemia, Spain, Syria, and Cappadocia. It is of the class 

 and order Tetiandia Monogynia. 



This tree will grow to near twenty feet in height. The branches are smooth, and of a 

 brown colour. The preceding year's shoots are white and downy, and the silvery leaves are 

 placed irregularly on them : these are of a spear-shaped figure, about two, and sometimes 

 three inches long, and three quarters of an inch broad, and are as soft as satin to the 

 touch. They continue on the tree great part of the winter. The flowers appear in July, 

 but make no figure : they are small, and come out at the foot-stalks of the leaves ; their 

 colour is white, and they are possessed of a strong scent. The fruit that succeeds them 

 much resembles a small Olive. Of this shrub there is a variety with yellow flowers. 



* Of this GENUS there are two species : 



1. PUNICA ( GRANATUM J foliis lanceolatis, caule arboreo. Lin. Sp. PI. 676; Pomegra- 

 nate with spear-shaped leaves, and a iree-like stem. Malus Punica Sativa. B. P. 438, The 



POMEGRANATE. 



This tree is now pretty common in the English gardens, where formerly it was nursed up in 

 cases, and preserved in green-houses with great care, (as was also the double-flowering kind,) 

 but they are both hardy enough to resist the severest cold of our climate in the open air ; 

 and, if planted against warm walls in a good situation, the first sort will often produce fruit, 

 which m warm seasons will ripen tolerably well ; but as these fruits do not ripen till late in 

 the autumn, they are seldom well-tasted in England, for which reason the sort with double 

 flowers is commonly preferred. Of this species there are the following varieties:—!. The 

 Wild Pomegranate with single and double flowers.— 2. The Sweet Pomegranate,— 3. The 



