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Richmond at Goodwood in Sussex* survived several winters without the 
slightest protection. 
The gleaner has the following observation on the Pomegranate (Punica 
Granatum). 
Culture, &c. 1. A rich strong soil, and a warm situation. 
2. Increased by layers in the spring, which will take sufficient root in a 
year s time. 
3. Tree. Grows eighteen or twenty feet high. * 
Rest season for transplanting is in the spring, but may be performed in 
autumn. 
It is so hardy as to resist the severest cold of our climate. 
Bears fruit at the extremity of the branches. 
Pruning when trained as well as wall trees. 
Summer... Cutting off fore-right shoots. 
Michaelmas... Cutting out weak branches of the former year, and shorten 
the stronger. 
The branches to be laid four or five inches asunder. 
4. Use. The fruit; which the tree often produces, in great quantities, 
in England, and of a full size; but not quite so well flavoured as the 
foreign. 
It is a native of Spain, Portugal, Italy, Barbary, Persia, Japan, China, 
Cochinchina, &c. But in the West Indies, where it is supposed to have 
been introduced from Europe, the fruit is thought to be larger and better 
flavoured. 
Miller, discoursing on the Pomegranate, says, the single Pomegranate is 
now pretty common in the English gardens, where formerly it was nursed 
up in cases, and preserved in green-houses with great care (as was also the 
double flowering kind); but they are both hardy enough to resist the 
severest cold of our climate in the open air; and, if planted against warm 
walls in a good situation, the first will often produce fruit, which in warm 
seasons will ripen tolerably well; but as these fruits do not ripen till late in 
the autumn, they are seldom well tasted in England, for which reason the 
sort with double flowers is commonly preferred to it. The sort with sweet 
fruit, as also the wild sort, are less common in the English gardens than 
the former two. 
“ The wild, I think,” says Parkinson, “ was never seen in England, 
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