Archive image from page 385 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofam03bail Year: 1900 laptable to mal pre,, wiedge jf the 1 with ver, that with the ex- ception of Prince's 'Po- mological Manual,' none of the fruit books that have done much to mold public opinion in America have been known as Pomol
Archive image from page 385 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofam03bail Year: 1900 laptable to mal pre,, wiedge jf the 1 with ver, that with the ex- ception of Prince's 'Po- mological Manual,' none of the fruit books that have done much to mold public opinion in America have been known as Pomologies, notwithstanding the fact that the greater number of them have given great at- tention to formal descrip- The Pomology is founded on the Lati , , _ word that was used generically for 'fruit.' lu later Latin it came to be associated more particularly with the apple-like fruits. The word is preserved to us in the French pom wif, meaning 'apple,'and in other languages of Latin derivation. In English we know it as pnme, a botanical terra used to designate fruits that have the peculiar morphological structure of the apple and pear. This use of the terra is explained under the article Pi/- riis. A pome is shown in Fig. 1889. The 'core,' inside the light dotted line, is the ripened carpels; the flesh, outside this line, is the thickened torus or receptacle, on or 'eye ' is borne. However, thei I top of which the â edfrom the Latin I pnme. SCK (IflMiiil ,,n tlic use ..f th<. ' fruit,' This word, as UNi-d by tlio horticulturist, is iiii|.(.ssible of definition. 1 roducts that are classed with fiuits in one country may be classed with vegetables in another. To the horticulturist a fruit is a product that is closely asso- ciated, in its origin, with the flower. As used in this country, a fruit is the product of a bush or tree or woody vine, the most marked exception being the straw- berry. Most fruits may be grouped under three gen- eral heads,-orchard or tree fruits, vine
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