230 THE KITCHEN-GARDEN, [chap. vii. 
rai kinds, one with white berries, another 
with green, and a third, which is very orna¬ 
mental, with scarlet berries. There is also a 
very handsome kind with cut leaves: a ptisan 
made of the flowers is reckoned excellent in 
France for producing perspiration in cases of 
colds and fevers; and the fruit of the black- 
berried kind is used for making wine, and 
also a kind of jam. 
The Pomegranate .—If the elder be con¬ 
sidered a plebeian fruit, the pomegranate 
may be called an aristocratic one, as it is 
rarely seen in England except in the gardens 
of persons of rank and wealth. Notwith¬ 
standing this, it requires but little care from 
the gardener, and it is only necessary for him 
to spare the knife; since it is on the points of 
the shoots, and on short slender twigs pro¬ 
jecting from the branches, which are exactly 
what a gardener, whose only care was to 
make his tree look neat, would think it ad¬ 
visable to cut off, that flowers are produced. 
Pomegranates require very rich and well 
pulverised soil, and to be trained against a 
wall with a south, or south-east aspect. When 
it is wished to throw them into fruit a their 
