. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. Pomegranate (X }4) ana also ny softwooa cuttings auring summer. As the plant forms many shoots, these are often used, as they usually are provided with rootlets. The Pomegranate is supposed to have been intro- duced into southern Europe by the Carthaginians, whose Lati
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. Pomegranate (X }4) ana also ny softwooa cuttings auring summer. As the plant forms many shoots, these are often used, as they usually are provided with rootlets. The Pomegranate is supposed to have been intro- duced into southern Europe by the Carthaginians, whose Latin name of "Punicus" was thus given and derived. We also find a reference in the sacred scrip- tures. Theophrastus described it 300 years before the Christian era, and Pliny considered it one of the most valuable fruits, both as to its beauty and medicinal properties. The bark of the root is a well-known as- tringent employed in therapeutics, in dysentery and diarrhoea; the rind of the fruit when boiled has for many generations past been the remedy for tenia, and a jet-black, smooth writing ink is also made of it. The Pomegranate is a native of some parts of Asia, and by some botanical authors is said to be also found in northern Africa and China. Although of such ancient origin and cultivation, there are but few varieties of the fruit-bearing section disseminated in this country and Europe, but, according to Firminger, several fine varieties have been grown in Bengal from seed brought from Cabul, one being seedless, another growing to the size of "an ordinary human head," and still another as large as a small shaddock. Varieties Gro\vn for Fri IT//./.-Willi :, Oi:M-p iir,,! ,,nlli Spanish ^ -i illliv; ill iana - .,^ to he only a form of tht- Sul. '.TlV't â¢ii;,lored with deepcrimsoiii'nll'. '"it' ,,âsi,I,.r'-it*tl Dwarf.âA form "f tlu v":,n'l^'.u'^hy growth: fls. single: fr. from I'.,--.' iii. in ; imlp ver
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