JpUUtCa grauatuin. Natural Order: Myrtacece—Myrtle Family . 
EQUIRING the protection of glass in the northern climate, the 
Pomegranate is generally cultivated in greenhouses, while in the 
south of Europe it is grown for hedges, being in its wild state 
k a thorny bush. The flowers are large, handsome, and scarlet 
in color, both double and single. Its fruit has a hard rind, 
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- numerous seeds, a soft pulp of fine flavor, and is as large as 
an orange; while the root yields an extract valuable for its medical 
properties. Columella, a writer on husbandry in a. d. 42, makes mention 
of it. Josephus says, in his Antiquities of the Jews, “that the bells on 
the high priests’ robes were the symbols of thunder, and the pome¬ 
granates, of lightning.” 
Jtgpiting. 
V ED lightnings play’d along the firmament, 
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And their demolish’d works to pieces went. 
■— Dryden. 
T7ROM cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage; 
Till, in the furious elemental war 
Dissolv’d, the whole precipitated mass 
Unbroken floods and solid torrents pour. 
— Thomson. 
'T'HE low reeds bent by the streamlet’s side, 
A And hills to the thunder peal replied; 
The lightning burst on its fearful way, 
While the heavens were lit in its red array. 
— Willis Gaylord Clark. 
TOOK! from the turbid south 
What floods of flame in red diffusion burst! 
Frequent and furious, darted thro’ the dark, 
And broken ridges of a thousand clouds, 
Piled hill on hill; and hark! the thunder rous’d, 
Groans in long roarings through the distant gloom! 
— Mallet. 
'THROUGH the air 
-*■ Mountains of clouds, with lurid summits roll’d, 
The lightning kindling with its vivid glare 
Their outlines as they rose, heap’d fold on fold. 
—Epes Sargent. 
T'HE winds grow high; 
A Impending tempests charge the sky; 
The lightning flies, the thunder roars, 
And big waves lash the frighted shores. 
— Prior. 
