. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXVIII. GRANATA^CEiE. XXIX. TAMARICA^CEjE. 457 & P. G. 2 riibnim flore plena Trew Ehret t. 71. f. 2. has double red flowers. It is common in gardens, and is a little more impatient of cold than the preceding variety. {Dec. Prod., iii. p. 4.) a^ P. G. 3 albescens Dec. Prod. iii. p. 4.
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXVIII. GRANATA^CEiE. XXIX. TAMARICA^CEjE. 457 & P. G. 2 riibnim flore plena Trew Ehret t. 71. f. 2. has double red flowers. It is common in gardens, and is a little more impatient of cold than the preceding variety. {Dec. Prod., iii. p. 4.) a^ P. G. 3 albescens Dec. Prod. iii. p. 4., Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 16.— Petals white. Calyx slightly yellowish. Pulp of the fruit of a pale red. It is cultivated in gardens, and is rather more tender than P. G. riibrura. {Dec. Prod., iii. p. 4.) a P. G. 4 albescens flare pleno Dec. has double flowers, which are nearly white. It is cultivated in gardens, and is the tenderest of all the forms of the species. {Dec. Prod., iii. p. 4.) * P. G. bflaviim Hort. has the flowers yellow, but is rare in gardens. A tree, in magnitude and ligneous character, bearing considerable resem- blance to the common hawthorn. In the South of France, and in Spain and Italy, it grows to the height of 18 or ^0 feet; forming a very branchy twiggy tree, seldom found with a clear stem, unless it has been pruned up. In a wild state, about Marseilles, it forms a thorny bush ; but, in the gardens about Nice and Genoa, it is a very handsome small tree, much admired both for its flowers and its fruit. In the South of Europe, the pomegranate is culti- vated for its fruit j and, in some places, as a hedge plant. It is also grown as an ornamental tree; the stem being trained to the height of 6 or 8 feet, and the headjifterwards allowed to spread, and droop down on every side. The single wild pomegranate will grow in almost any soil; but the double-flowered varieties, and the species when it is intended to bear fruit, require a rich free soil. Whether the obj
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