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84. A DISCOURSE 



BOOK rr. term it, and is said to marry with Laurels, the Damson, Ash, Almond, 

 ^•'^^(^ INlulberry, Citron ; too many I fear to hold. But, aftel- all, they do best 

 being cased, the mould well mixed with hogs' rotten dung, its peculiar 

 delight, and kept to a single stem, and treated like other plants in the 

 winter shelter ; they open the bud and flower, and sometimes with a 

 pretty small fruit ; the juice whereof is cooling, and the rest of an astrin- 

 gent quality. The rind may also supply the gall for making ink, and 

 will tan leather. 



LILAC. 



The lilac is easily propagated by suckers and layers. Of this 

 there are two sorts, one with a white, and another with a pale purple 

 flower. Besides these, there is another with purple flowers and small 

 spear-shaped leaves, by our botanists called Persian Jasmine, which 

 leads me to the other Jasmines. 



Small-flovverlng Pomegranate with single and double flowers. — 4. The Pomegranate with 

 striped flowers. 



The double-flowering kind is most esteemed in this country for the sake of its large, 

 fine, double flowers, wliich are of a most beautiful scarlet colour ; and, if the trees are 

 well supplied with nourishment, they will continue to produce flowers for two months 

 successively, which renders it one of the most valuable flowering-trees yet known. The 

 Balaustia of the shops are the impalements of the flowers of this kind. 



2. PUNICA ( NANA ) foliis linearibus, caule fruticoso. Lin. Sp. PI. 676. Pomegranate 

 with linear leaves and a shrubby stem, Punica Americana nana s. huraiUima. Tourn. Inst. 636. 



The AMERICAN DWARF POMEGRANATE. 



This sort grows naturally in the West-Indies, where the inhabitants plant it in their gardens to 

 form hedges. It seldom rises more than five or six feet high in those countries, so may be 

 kept within compass, and there the plants keep flowering great part of the year. The flowers 

 of this kind are much Smaller than those of the common sort ; the leaves are shorter and 

 narrower, and the fruit is not larger than a nutmeg, and has little flavour, so it is chiefly 

 propagated for the beauty of its flowers. 



The Pomegranate is of the class and order Icosandria Monogyiiia^ 



^ Though the varieties of LILAC are numerous^ the real distinct species are only two. 



I. SYRINGA ( VULGARIS ) foHis ovato-cordatis* Lin. Sp. PI. 11. Syringa with oval heart- 

 shaped leaves. The common lilac. 



