. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . STANCES; to Miller, it rises to lie a large tree, with a straightstem, and the fruit shaped like a pear. The Dutchmedlar, which is the kind most cultivated in En<^-land, does not reach a s^reat heiiiht, and is crookedand inisisihtly in the branches. The leaves are muchlarg-er than those of the connnon medlar, and theyare downy on their under sides. The fruit, also, islarg-er, and so are the ilowers ; but it is inferior inpuno-ency and flavour to the smaller sort, which isknown by the name of the
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . STANCES; to Miller, it rises to lie a large tree, with a straightstem, and the fruit shaped like a pear. The Dutchmedlar, which is the kind most cultivated in En<^-land, does not reach a s^reat heiiiht, and is crookedand inisisihtly in the branches. The leaves are muchlarg-er than those of the connnon medlar, and theyare downy on their under sides. The fruit, also, islarg-er, and so are the ilowers ; but it is inferior inpuno-ency and flavour to the smaller sort, which isknown by the name of the Nottingham medlar. The timber of the medlar is very hard and tree is also rather a slow gTOwer, and lasts to agreat age. Chapter II. PULPY FRUITS BORNE BY SHRUBS AND TREES.—POMEGRANATE ; FIG ; VINE. Pulpy fruits are distinguished from others hy thesoftuess of tlieir texture, in which the seeds lie im-bedded. They differ very much amona; themselvesin botanical characters,—some being berries, otherspulpy receptacles ; but the arrangement is sufficientlyprecise for our The Pomegranate—Pnnica Granatum. Before the peach, the nectarine, and the apricothad travelled from Persia to the more Western coun-tries on the borders of the Red Sea, the pomegranatewas there assiduously cultivated, and held in thegreatest esteem. In the wilderness, when the chil-dren of Israel murmured for the fruits of Egypt, V 2 240 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. they exclaimed, It is no place of seed, or of figs, orof vines, or of jiomegranates. On the borders ofthe promised land, Moses described it as a land ofwheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, andpomegranates ; a land of oil-olive, and honey. Inthe Canticles, Solomon sings of an orchard ofpomegranates, with pleasant fruits. A tree, there-fore, which partakes of the antiquity of the ^nne, thefig, and the olive,—and which, in point of utility, isnumbered with the grain-bearing plants, and withhoney, all constituting the principa
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