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ferts to require a particular clcfcripcion.-- 
The wild pomegranate is only produced in 
hot countries. The juice of the pomegra- 
nate is much valued in medicine. Of this 
tree the Englilh reckon five forts, which are 
cultivated more for ornament than utility. 
They confill of the common, fweer, wild, 
double flowered, and American dwarf pome- 
granate. The firfl; of ihefe is the mofl com- 
mon in England, which, with care, has been 
known to afford fruit that has ripened to- 
lerably well in warm feafons ; but as they 
generally ripen late, they are feldom tvell 
tailed. The double-flowered, continuing its 
beautiful bloom for near three months, is 
elleemed as the moil valuable flowering tree 
vet dli'covered. 
R I C E - P L A N T. 
1 I-IIS plant is much cultivated in the eafl* 
and produces the grain fo much coniumed, 
w'nieh is called rice. Although a native of 
the Kail, great quantitiSs ot it have been 
reared in South Carolina, where it is found 
to fucci ed as well as in its original foil : and 
it !){;Ing a grain that Irom its ute may be cal- 
led the manna of the poor, it has proved 
moll beneficial to that province, ilie plant 
bears its llaik to the height ot three or four 
leer, and is much thicker and 'bonder than 
