Bulletin No. 1-10: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Pomology, Issues 1-8U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 |
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Abbreviations of names America apples Average annual imports banana bearing Black budded California Charlotte Harbor Citrus climate color County crop cultivation culture date palm Decade ending dessert Districts and starring dm Fla early feet figs flavor frost fruit grafted Grape green grower growing grown growth guava hardy inches India Iowa Ischia Key Largo Key West KEY.-Size latitude lemon Linn Loquat Manville medium names of places native Navel northern nuts obop Ohio olive orchard pear pine-apple places of origin planted plums pomelo Pomologist POMOLOGY pounds produced pulp quantity region ripe ripening ro yrs roots rough lemon round Russian sapodilla scale Season Section seedlings seeds skin Smyrna soil sour orange south Florida southern species SUBSECTION sugar-apple sweet stock trees tropical varieties Vitis West Indies White Winesap winter yellow ос уг
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Page 104 - For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey...
Page 50 - ... 5. — To entitle a new fruit to the award or commendation of the society, it must possess (at least for the locality for which it is recommended) some valuable or desirable quality or combination of qualities, in a higher degree than any previously known variety of its class and season.
Page 51 - Rule 1. — In estimating the comparative values of collections of fruits, committees are instructed to base such estimates strictly upon the varieties in such collections which shall have been correctly named by the exhibitor, prior to action thereon by the committee on nomenclature. Rule 2.
Page 50 - Rule 2. — The society reserves the right, in case of long, inappropriate, or otherwise objectionable names to shorten, modify, or wholly change the same, when they shall occur in its discussions or reports; and also to recommend such changes for general adoption.
Page 51 - In making the necessary corrections they shall, for the convenience of the examining and awarding committees, do the same at as early a period as practicable, and in making such corrections they shall use cards readily distinguishable from those used as labels by exhibitors, appending a mark of doubtfulness in case of uncertainty. SECTION IV. EXAMINING AND AWARDING COMMITTEES. Rule 1. — In estimating the comparative values of collections of fruits committees...
Page 33 - ... expert pomologists whose duty it shall be to supervise the nomenclature of the fruits on exhibition, and in case of error to correct the same. Rule 2. — In making the necessary corrections they shall, for the convenience of...
Page 33 - All articles plaeed upon the tables for exhibition must remain in charge of the society till the close of the exhibition, to be removed sooner only upon express permission of the person or persons in charge.
Page 3 - The variety bearing this name originated early in the present century on a farm adjoining the then borough of York, Pa. The attention of the owner, a Mr. Johnson, was attracted to the tree by the presence of schoolboys who visited it in early spring to get the apples that had passed the winter on the ground, covered by leaves. On securing some of the fruit he found it in fine condition, and when the next crop was ripe took specimens to Mr. Jonathan Jessop, a local nurseryman, who began the propagation...