Sentence examples for pomologist from inspiring English sources

A pomologist, or specialist in the science and practice of fruit growing, defines it somewhat more narrowly as the fleshy edible part of a perennial plant associated with development of the flower.

Were he alive today, Howard, the pomologist, would likely be flummoxed by the heirloom revival.

In the mid-nineteen-thirties, a California pomologist named W. L.

The great New York pomologist U. P. Hedrick recounted this tasting (perhaps the first American spit-take) in his 1908 classic "The Grapes of New York".

As a guide, Joan Morgan, fruit historian, pomologist and officially one of the few people in this world that's tasted all that's out there offers her dessert island apples.

According to Terry Freed, a pomologist and an owner of Garden of Eden Orchards, a commercial grower in Salisbury, Md., most citrus trees can be grown in Florida and in the Southwest.

Apple, cherry, peach and pear trees, with their showy fragrant blooms, lush foliage and edible bounty, line many winding roads in the Hudson Valley north of New York City, offering proof of the area's agricultural richness and tempting urban buyers of weekend country houses into an unanticipated role — part-time pomologist.

City children no longer need settle for the so-called Delicious, which was developed by pomologists seeking an apple with a supernatural ability to keep and with what some apple growers call "typey" shape--the plump body and the bumps on the base that are supposed to make the fruit easier for the distracted consumer to recognize as an apple.

For years, pomologists soldiered on in the quest to create an instrument that rivalled the capacities of the human mouth without mimicking its destructiveness.

SINCE the 18th century, pomologists have rated one apple variety as best: New York City's own Newtown Pippin.

Pomologists tried, mostly in vain, to identifythe varieties based on prints made by dipping apple halves in ink and stamping them on paper, like potato prints.