pomology

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Cirone grew up in San Luis Obispo and graduated from Cal Poly with a degree in pomology, or fruit science.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2023

The event would prove to be momentous in the annals of American pomology, though no one realized it at the time, including him.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2014

From the ashes of millions of seedlings will arise, Phoenix-like, the creations that will dominate our future prairie pomology.

From Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 by Latham, A. W.

Writers on pomology make little reference to this nut, but according to Mr. Fuller, nurserymen's catalogs listed hazel varieties all through the early part of the last century.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the sixth annual meeting Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 by Northern Nut Growers Association

I spoke of it to a poor laborer, who, with one foot on his spade and an elbow on its handle, stood listening to the two doctors of pomology.

From The Lily of the Valley by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott