Pomona

a nymph at Rome who was | supposed to preside over gardens, and to be © the godde of all sorts of fruit-trees. She had © a temple at Rome, and a regular priest called Flamen Pomonalis, who offered sacrifices to her divinity for the preservation of fruit, ~ She was generally represented as sitting on a basket full of flowers and fruit, and holding — a bovgn in one hand, and apples in the other, — Many of the gods of the country endeavoured io gain her aftection, but Vertumnus was the only one who prevailed upon her to marry him. This deity. was unknown among the © Greeks. oO