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 date palm Decade ending dessert Districts and starring dm Fla dm Mass 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 Lake latitude lemon Linn Loquat Manville medium ml dm names of places native northern nuts Ohio olive orchard pear pine-apple places of origin planted plums pomelo Pomologist POMOLOGY pounds produced pulp quantity region ripe ripening ro yr 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
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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 56 - ... 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 57 - 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 56 - 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 57 - 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 37 - ... 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 37 - 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.