C? TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 171 
der nature, more particularly the latter, requiring pro¬ 
tection of a green-houfe in winter; but the tree kind, 
common Pomegranate, is more hardy, admits of being 
planted in the open ground, in a warm fituation, or 
ngainft a fouth wall; cultivated principally for variety 
and ornament, a? a Ane flowering-tree and for the 
beauty of its fruit; is a tree of moderate growth, very 
branchy and bufhy, adorned with narrow, fpear-fhape 
leaves; and very ornamental, fcarlet, quinquepetalous 
flowers at the ends of the branches; having one¬ 
leaved, bell-fhape, five-parted cups, coloured and per¬ 
manent; five roundifh expanded petals; twenty or 
more llamina, a roundifh germen below, fupporting 
a Angle ftyle; and the germen grows a large, globular 
fruit, of feveral internal cells, full of a fucculent pulp, 
and manv granulous feeds, good and delicious to eat; 
and by the feeds fowed the tree may be raifed; but is 
more generally propagated by layers of the young 
branches in the fpring. 
One hardieft Species, viz. 
Punic a Granatum —(Granatum) or Pomegranate 
Tree. 
Moderate, deciduous tree, fifteen to eighteen, or 
twenty feet high—a tree-like Item, very branchy from 
the bottom upward; the leaves {narrow,) fpear- 
fhape; and many elegant, red flowers, in bunch¬ 
es, at the ends of the branches and young fhoots, 
in fpring and early part of fummer; fucceeded by 
large, round fruit, fometimes ripening, in tolerable 
perfection, againft a fouth wall; fome kept in pots, 
to Ihelter in winter.—Native of Spain 1 , Italy, and 
Mauritania. (Rich ground and warm fituation.) 
Varieties .—Common Pomegranate Tree, with An¬ 
gle flowers. 
Double-flowered Pomegranate Tree. 
Striped-flowered Pomegranate Tree. 
Small-flowered Pomegranate Tree r with 
Angle and double flowers. 
This fpecies, in the feveral varieties, are definable 
to plant for ornamental flowering-trees, allotting them 
a warm, defended fituation, in the full fun; and the 
common Angle-flowered kind may alfo be planted both 
as a fruit-tree and for ornament, one, two, or three 
trees againft a Couth wall, and the branches trained 
thereto, regularly, in the wall-tree manner, in which 
they will both flower very ornamentally, and in favourable 
feaforrs produce large, beautiful fruit, in fome tolerable 
degree of maturity, in autumn; but in greater per¬ 
fection, if the trees are protected with glafs frames, in 
cold weather, in fpring. See. while flowering, and in wet, 
cold weather, in autumn, when the fruit is ripening; 
though, at beft, they feldom ripen here with equal fla¬ 
vour, as in their native countries. 
However, confidered as ornamental flowering-trees, 
they merit culture in every curious collection, fome 
planted againft warm walls, or others trained in fmall 
ftandard-trees, in a bufhy growth, for adorning the 
flhrubbery, and in both of which, their elegant fcarlet 
flowers will make a beautiful appearance, more parti¬ 
cularly the double-flowered kind, which are of An¬ 
gular beauty, continuing in fucceflion, two or three 
months. 
All the varieties are propagated by layers of their 
young branches, in the autumn or fpring, by flit lay¬ 
ers, and will be well rooted, for planting off, by the 
autumn following, planting them in a warm Atuation, 
or trained as above; or fome planted at once where 
they are to remain; or may alfo plant them in pots, 
fingly, to move under (belter from froft in winter. 
When deAgned to plant any againft a wall, to pro¬ 
duce flowers and fruit, (hould train the branches there¬ 
to four or flve inches afunder; and it fhould be obferv- 
ed that as the tree produces the flowers, &c. at the 
ends of the branches or (hoots of the fame year, (hould 
annually prune them, in the autumn or fpring, cut¬ 
ting out the fmall, weak twigs, of the former fum- 
mers, referving the middling-ftrong (hoots; and thofe 
(hortened according to their ftrength, that they may 
more effectually produce a proper fupply of flowering- 
(hoots; and when thus ftiortened train them to the wall, 
and in the following fummer, when young (hoots ad¬ 
vance, prune off any as are of vigorous projecting 
growth, and retain the others for flowering,. &c. and 
train them to the wall. 
Pyrus, PEAR TREE, compriftng alfo the Appur 
and Qu ince. 
Glafs and Order. 
Icofandria Pentagynia 
Twenty or more Males, Five Females ;, 
Or Plants with Herm. Flowers, having twenty, or more , 
Stamina, or Mules, and five Pifiillums, or Females. 
THE Pyrus, conformable to the fexual fyftem of 
botany, comprehends the Pear Tree as the principal 
or original of this Genus; and the Malus, or Apple Tree, 
and the Gydonia, or Quince, formerly confidered as dif- 
tinCt Genera, are ranged as feparate fpecies of the 
Pyrus family; which, confiding of four or flve dif¬ 
ferent fpecies, furniftiing many varieties, are all of the de¬ 
ciduous tree kinds, molt valuable fruit-trees, or fome oc- 
caflonally for ornamental planting; but principally to 
plant abundantly as fruit-trees, ingardens and orchards, 
for their productions of fruit, of luperior value, as the 
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