420 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Class XII. 
7002 paniculata L. T. 
7003 cornuta Lab. 
7004 reticulata Link. 
7005 longifolia Link. 
7006 media Link. 
7007 mucronata Link. 
7008 triantha Link. 
7009 persicifolia Lodd. 
7010 pulverulenta Link. 
7011 elougata Link, 
ion myrtifolia Link. 
7013 microphylla Link. 
7014 stenophylla Link. 
7015 hypericifolia Dum. 
7016 hirsuta Link. 
7017 purpurascens Link. 
1127. PU'NICA. W. 
7018 nana W. 
7019 Granatum TV. 
13 alba 
y plena 
panicled 
I 
1 — 1 
or 
30 
W 
N. S. W. 
1804. 
L 
s.p 
horned 
T 
1 1 
or 
>30 
w 
N. Holl. 
1803. 
L 
s.p 
netted 
f. 
1 1 
or 
30 
w 
N. Holl. 
1823. 
1.1 
CO 
long-leaved 
1 
1 1 
or 
30 
w 
N. Holl. 
1823. 
L 
CO 
intermediate 
X 
1 1 
or 
30 
w 
N. Holl. 
1823. 
L 
CO 
mucronate 
X 
1 1 
or 
30 
w 
N. Holl. 
1823. 
L 
CO 
three-flowered 
i-J 
or 
30 
... 
w 
N. Holl. 
1823. 
L 
CO 
Peach-leaved 
* 
1 — 1 
or 
30 
Jl 
w 
N. Holl. 
1817. 
L 
CO 
powdery 
1 1 
or 
30 
jn 
w 
N. Holl. 
1816. 
L 
CO 
long 
i_J 
or 
30 
w 
N. Holl. 
1823. 
L 
CO 
myrtle-leaved 
m 
i_l 
or 
6 
w 
N. Holl. 
1823. 
L 
CO 
small-leaved 
1 1 
or 
30 
w 
N. Holl. 
1823. 
L 
CO 
narrow-leaved 
i 
( 1 
30 
w 
N. Holl. 
1823. 
L 
CO 
Hypericum-lvd 
i 
1 1 
or 
30 
w 
N. Holl. 
1823. 
L 
CO 
1 1 
or 
30 
w 
N. Holl. 
1823. 
L 
CO 
dark-branched 
1 
i_J 
or 
30 
w 
N. Holl. 
1823. 
L 
CO 
Pomegranate. 
Myrti. 
Sp.2 
dwarf 
Sk 
L_J 
or 
5 
jl.s 
R 
W. Indies 
1723. 
C 
r.m 
common 
St 
fr 
18 
jn.s 
s 
S. Europe 
1548. 
C 
r.m 
white-flowered 
or 
10 
jn.s 
s 
China 
C 
r.m 
double-Jiowered 
or 
10 
jn.s 
s 
S. Europe 
C 
r.m 
Lab. voy. 1. 1. 20 
Bot. cab. 501 
Bot. mag. 2087 
1128. AMYG'DALUS. W. Almovd. 
7020 Persica W. 
(3 Neclar'ina 
y "plena 
7021 communis W. 
S amdra 
7022 nana W. 
7023 incana W. 
7024 orientalis W. 
7025piimila W.^ 
PrUnus sinensis P. S. 
7009 
common Peach ^ fr 
Nectarine ^ fr 
double-flowered ^ or 
Sweet-almond ^ fr 
Bitter-almond 5f ft" 
common-dwarf Sfe or 
woolly *s or 
silvery-leaved ^ i | or 
double-dwarf ^ or 
Rosacece. 
15 ap.my R 
15 ap.my R 
15 ap.my R 
15 mr.ap R 
15 mr.ap R 
2 mr.ap R 
2 mr.ap R 
10 mr.ap R 
4 my.jn R 
Sp. 6. 
Persia 
Persia 
Persia 
Barbary 
Barbary 
Russia 
Caucasus 
Levant 
China 
1562. 
1562. 
1548. 
1548. 
1683. 
17^56. 
1683. 
B h.l 
B h.l 
B h.l 
S h.l 
S h.l 
B s.l 
B s.l 
B si 
L s.l 
Blackw. 1. 195 
Bot. mag. 161 
Pall. ross. 1. t. 
Bot. mag. 2176 
7018 
7019/3 
7010 7019 
History, Use, Propagation, Culture, 
generally well clothed v/ith beautiful foliage; they will also flower freely, when of a moderate size. The best 
soil for them is a mixture of loam and peat ; and cuttings of them may be struck in sand under a bell-glass ; 
but they are not so free to root, as most of this natural order are. {Bot. Cult. 189.) 
1127. Punica. This fruit was called by the ancients Malum Punicum, Carthaginian apple; because, as Pliny 
tells us, the tree was first known to grow in the vicinity of Carthage. Hence has the term Punica been con- 
structed. P. nana has very small fruit and flowers, and is used in the "West Indies as a hedge-plant, as P. Granatum 
(from granum, grain, on account of the numerous grains of its fruit) is in the south of France and in Italy. The 
latter, in its wild state, is a thorny bush not unlike our hawthorn : the flowers have a fine appearance, and the 
fruit is very ornamental. It will produce fruit, trained against a south wall, in many paits of England ; and 
under a glass-case, or against a flued wall, it is probable, the fruit might be as highly flavored as that imported 
from Genoa and Leghorn. The flowers come out at the ends of the branches, singly, or three and four together ; 
and, therefore, in pruning, care must be had to bring into action only the strongest buds. For this purpose, all 
the weak shoots should be cut out, and the stronger ones shortened, so as to produce bearing-shoots over the 
whole tree. The best soil is a rich strong loam. 
The double-flowering varieties are to be treated in the same manner, and are highly ornamental. 
1128. Amygdalus. The Greek name of the almond. The species are fruit-trees, or ornamental trees and 
shrubs, both much esteemed for the gay color and early appearance of their flowers. A. Persica, the peach 
and nectarine, bears the most exquisitely delicious of European fruits ; it is more gratifying to the palate by its 
mass of juicy pulp than the grape, and more delicate than the melon. Some, however, prefer the grape and melon 
to the peach and nectarine ; but the most delicate of taste consider the latter as surpassed only Ly the pine-apple. 
The varieties of peach and nectarine are numerous, and by raising from seed might easily be rendered innumer- 
able. The best varieties have been raised in France, at Montreuil, a village of peach growers for the Paris market. 
Some good varieties have been raised in England by Mr. Knight, and other members of the Horticultural So- 
ciety. The peach, to attain its proper flavor, must be protected by glass during the spring and earlier summer 
months, and exposed to the direct influence of the weather during the ripening process. Ripened under 
glass, unless very liberal supplies of air are given, the flavor will be very inferior. Mr. Knight considers that 
the direct rays of the sun (without the intervention of glass) are of great advantage to the proper ripening, and 
essential to the coloring of the peach. 
Linnceus divides the A. Persica into two varieties ; that with downy fruit, or the peach, and that with smooth 
fruit, or the nectarine. There are various instances on record (Ho)-t. Trans, vol. i. p. 103.) of both fruits growing 
on the same tree, even on the same branch ; and one case has occurred of a single fruit partaking of the nature 
of both. The French consider them as one fruit, arranging them in four divisions ; the peches, or free-stone 
peaches, the flesh of whose fruit separates readily from the skin and the stone; the peches lisses, or free-stone 
nectarines, or free stone smooth peaches ; the pavies, or cling-stone peaches, whose flesh is firm, and adheres 
