. Catalogue of rare Florida fruits and flowers for the season of 1890. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Cutler Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. 2 JESSAMINE GARDENS,. The Pomegranate, or Carthaginian Apple. Thi8 beautiful and delicious fruit wa8 kuown. cultivated and fully appreciated in the very earU^ annals of the world's history. -Before the peach, the nectarine and the apncot bad traveled froi. ?ersU to the Red Sea. the Pomegranate was there assiduously cultivated and held in the ^teet e«teem " It is frequentlv alluded to in the Scriptures, and in point
. Catalogue of rare Florida fruits and flowers for the season of 1890. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Cutler Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. 2 JESSAMINE GARDENS,. The Pomegranate, or Carthaginian Apple. Thi8 beautiful and delicious fruit wa8 kuown. cultivated and fully appreciated in the very earU^ annals of the world's history. -Before the peach, the nectarine and the apncot bad traveled froi. ?ersU to the Red Sea. the Pomegranate was there assiduously cultivated and held in the ^teet e«teem " It is frequentlv alluded to in the Scriptures, and in point of utility was classed with the ffrain-beariuK plants and with honey. In the time of Solomon it was used as a pattern for embroider- Fnfr garments of Princes, and to embellish the most ornate and splendid archit^ture. Heathen mythology furnishes a most beautiful legend respecting this fruit, but we have not the space in which to present it. It forms a beautiful bush, or small tree, and when covered with flowers is a sight of wondrouB beauty. The outside, or calyx, of the flowers look as if cut out of very thick, red sealing wax. whUe the in- side, or petals, look like crape, or crimped tissue paper, of a deeper color. The fruits which follow grow as lu rge aa very large apples, the rind tough and leathery, and very ornamental. The inside is very curious, and delicions on the first trial. Downing pronounces it "unique" among fruits, and "the most singularly beautiful one that ever appears at the ; It is hardy in aU the Gulf States, and even farther north, being hardy at Charleston, and surviving the ordinary winters of Chattanooga. Tenn. The plants are early and very prolific bearers, and should be cultivated in every yard in the South, and as a tub-plant by every (lower lover elsewhere. It can be wintered in a pit or tfllar. or any place where 20 degrees of frost does not enter, and summered on the piazza or In the yard; and whether
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