Pomegranate

Pomegranate (Punica) - Like the Myrtle, the Pomegranate, P. granatum, is grown as a wall shrub, the walls of some old houses being covered with it, and it makes a very beautiful covering with its dense mass of tender green foliage. The type has single flowers of a brilliant scarlet, but the best is the double-flowered sort (flore-pleno), which is also scarlet, and is that most commonly seen. There is also a yellow-flowered sort and a white or almost white kind (albescens) with single and double forms, but these are rare. The flowers are borne freely on the young slender shoots of the previous years growth, and in pruning these must be left untouched. Increase by cuttings of dormant wood, rooted under glass with some heat.

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