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pomology|pəʊˈmɒlədʒɪ|
[ad. mod.L. pōmologia, f. pōm-um: see pome and -logy. So F. pomologie (Littré).]
The science and practice of fruit-culture; also, a treatise on fruit-culture.
1818Gentl. Mag. LXXXVIII. i. 160/1 Repeated experiments..which I made for the promotion of Pomology. 1839Pomological Mag. I. 106 Diel, in his Pomology..suggests its having been derived from a kind of Spanish gold coin called a real. 1851R. Hogg (title) British Pomology—The Apple. 1880Sat. Rev. 8 May 613/1 No intelligent pomologist, whether grower or amateur, should neglect to furnish his shelves with so thorough a directory..to our more familiar branch of pomology, apple and pear fruits.
Hence pomoˈlogical |ˌpəʊməʊ-| a., pomoˈlogically adv.; poˈmologist.
1833Chambers's Edin. Jrnl. II. 96/1 It is..the chief object of the modern pomologist to obtain..new varieties. 1839(title) The Pomological Magazine; or, Figures and Descriptions of the most important varieties of fruit cultivated in Great Britain. Ibid. 14 The Summer Bonchretien Pear... By some Pomologists it is supposed to be the Regalia of Valerius Cordus. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits i. 14 Our pomologists..select the three or the six best pears ‘for a small orchard’. 1863D. G. Mitchell My Farm of Edgewood 153, I once had the hardihood, in a little group of pomological gentlemen, to express a modest opinion in praise of the flavor of the Bartlett pear. 1920R. Frost Let. 14 May (1964) 105 Their report was that pomologically it was all right, but poetically not. 1976Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXIV. 577/1 Pomologists are now busy ‘taking the fruit tree back to the drawing board’, seeking better ways of intercepting light. 1976Nature 12 Aug. 574/1 Pomological literature contains two reports of the influence of grafted scions on the size, colour and ripening season of apples borne on the stock portions of topworked trees. |