pomology

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As a result, all across 19th- and early-20th-century America, people were enthusiastically creating new varieties of fruit, and the USDA’s Division of Pomology was trying to keep track.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2021

Made between 1886 and 1942, the illustrations were commissioned from artists, the majority of them women, by the Division of Pomology, which wanted to create a national register of fruits.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2021

Equally attractive to every lover of exquisite works of scientific art, is the recent American Pomology, edited by Dr. Brinckle of Philadelphia, and published by Hoffy of that city.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various

Wilson, of the Department of Pomology at Cornell University, for many valuable facts and suggestions used in this book, and for a careful reading of the manuscript.

From Apple Growing by Burritt, M. C.

In the Bureau of Plant Industry, two offices, that of Horticulture and Pomology and that of Soil Fertility, are co-operating in the solution of the soil fertility problems in the pecan regions.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923 by Northern Nut Growers Association