. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : for the season of 1890. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 2 JESSAMINE GARDENS, The Pomegranate, or Carthaginian Apple. This beautiful and delicious fruit was known, cultivated and fully appreciated in the very earliest -annals of the world's history. "Before the peach, the nectarine and the apricot had traveled from Persia to the Eed Sea, the Pomegranate was there assiduously cultivated and held in the greatest ; It is frequently alluded to in the
. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : for the season of 1890. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 2 JESSAMINE GARDENS, The Pomegranate, or Carthaginian Apple. This beautiful and delicious fruit was known, cultivated and fully appreciated in the very earliest -annals of the world's history. "Before the peach, the nectarine and the apricot had traveled from Persia to the Eed Sea, the Pomegranate was there assiduously cultivated and held in the greatest ; It is frequently alluded to in the Scriptures, anil in point of utility was classed with the grain-bearing plants and with honey. In the time of Solomon it was used as apattern for embroider- ing the costly garments of Princes, and to embellish the most ornate and splendid architecture. 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 wondrous beauty. The or calyx, of the flowers look as if cut out of very thick, red sealing wax, while the in- side, or petals, look like crape, or crimped tissue paper, of a deeper color. The fruits which follow grow as large as very large apples, the rind tough and leathery, and very ornamental. The inside is very curious, and delicious 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 all the Gulf States, and even farther north, being hardy at Charleston, S. C, and surviving the ordinary winters of Chattanooga, Tenn. The plants are early arnd very prolific bearers, and should be cultivated in every yard in the South, and as a tub-plant by every flower lover elsewhere. It can be wintered in a pit or cellar, or an,v place where 20 degrees of frost does not enter, and summered on the piazza
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