. Les annales de l'Horticulture et Year-Book de l'information pratique sur le jardinage. n'est pas unf requentin l'Ancien Testament. Des passages auquel il est mentionné, il peut être bien seenthat la grenade a, depuis le remotesthistorical âges, été tenu en très haute estime.C'était l'un des luxes de l'Égypte, de theloss dont le murmure Israélites com-plained dans leur errance dans le wilder-ness, qui avait pas de place, ils ont dit, ofseed, ou des figues, ni vigne, ni pomegra-nates. (Engourdi. xx. 5.) à ce antérieurement,cependant, la grenade est mentionné comme objet, il adecorative

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. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. is not unf requentin the Old Testament. From the passages inwhich it is mentioned, it may be clearly seenthat the pomegranate has, from the remotesthistorical ages, been held in very high esteem.It was one of the luxuries of Egypt, of theloss of which the murmuring Israelites com-plained in their wandering through the wilder-ness, which was no place, they said, ofseed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegra-nates. (Numb. xx. 5.) Antecedently to this, however, the pomegranate is mentioned as adecorative object, it being directed that thepriests robe should have pomegranates ofblue, and of purple, and of scarlet, workedround about the hem thereof. (JExod.xxviii. 33.) Subsequently the same object isemployed in the decoration of the temple asan ornament to the pillars : four hundredpomegranates on the two wreaths, two rowson each wreath (2 Chron. iv. 13); hemade chains, and put them on the heads of thepillars, and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. (2 Chron. iii. 16.). It is not at all surprising, when the beautyand utility as well as the familiarity of thepomegranate are taken into consideration, thatit should be thus prominently employed amongthe Israelites. Their land was one of vinesand fig-trees and pomegranates, of whichtook the spies who came unto the brook of * The Arabic name is Eooman. Eshcol. In Egypt it is probable that theymade acquaintance with the plant in a culti-vated state, and there, no doubt, they hadlearned to know its virtues and its uses ; butin their own land the tree must have beenindigenous, so pointed are the allusions to thevine, the fig-tree, the palm-tree, the pomegra-nate, and the olive-tree, as the glory and richesof the land. Saul, the first king of Israel, tarried under a pomegranate-tree in Gibeah(1 Sam. xiv. 2), while his more active sonsmote the Philistines garrison. En Rimmon, the fountain of the pomegranate, is mentionedby more than

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