This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...co-ordinate with horticulture. The most prominent and best known division of horticulture Is pomology, or fruit growing. This takes in the production of all the orchard fruits, such as the apple, pear, plum, cherry and peach, and also the small fruits as blackberries, raspberries and numerous others. The word pomology ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...co-ordinate with horticulture. The most prominent and best known division of horticulture Is pomology, or fruit growing. This takes in the production of all the orchard fruits, such as the apple, pear, plum, cherry and peach, and also the small fruits as blackberries, raspberries and numerous others. The word pomology is derived from the botanical name of, possibly the most universal type of fruit; in other words the apple, which Dotanically is known as a pome. A Pome is a fleshy receptacle or torus, into which is sunk the one or more carpels composing the ovary. The best known examples of this type of fruit are the apple and the pear. The accompanying illustration will give a better idea of their parts than a description. Apples and pears both belong to the same botanical family and genus, but are of different species. The family Is the Rosaceae or the rose family and the genus is Pyrus; the species of our common apple, is however, malus, and of the pear communis. The development of the pome is easily understood. Ovary is inferior, that is, below the calyx. After fertilization. the calyx sometimes drops off, but in most cases persists or remains on the fruit the torus begins to develop around the ovary which usually in the apple and pear is of five divisions. The torus eventually becomes fleshy and forms the greater portion of the edible fruit. The core, or hard center is the ovary, and in the center of this core are found the seeds. Let us now look into the botany of the drupe. A Drupe is a fruit in which the outer portion of the ovary becomes fleshy and the inner portion becomes hard. forming the pit or stone, In which is found the seed. A drupe is usually a one-celled and oneseeded fruit, being formed from a one-loculed ovary. Examples are the peach, pl...
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