#pomology

[heaveninawildflower]

Sweet Cone Strawberry by John Lindley taken from 'The Pomological Magazine' (1828).

Published by J. Ridgway.

UMass Amherst Libraries.

archive.org

[noosphe-re]

One cannot have beautiful trees without loving them. Neither goodness of soil, nor rich manure, nor favourable situations will alone make them thrive, but it is the gardener's affection which make them strong and vigorous.

LeGendre, Superintendent of the Royal Gardens under Louis XIII in 1652 (from Fruit Growing In India by W.B. Hayes)

[horticolture]

Applejack pulling a frost dragon through her apples because they’re at 20% bloom and the temperature is predicted to go below 25 degrees F, which is below the critical temperature for 90% kill :(

[aflockofseacows]

boom harvested the small apple tree.

[worms-go-here]

What is this big green thing?

what do you call it?

horse apple

hedge apple

osage orange

monkey ball

mock orange

bodark/bodarc/bois d'arc/bodock

green brains

something else (pls tag)

i dont have a name for this

ive never seen this

Voting ended onSep 29, 2023

if you'd like to tag the region you live in also that'd be interesting to see as well!

[histsciart]

Pears (Pyrus communis), variety "Gute Graue".

SciArt by Walter Müller for Äpfel und Birnen (1894) by Rudolph Goethe, H. Degenkolb, and R. Mertens. View more inBiodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to Cornell University Library (@cornelluniversity) for digitizing.

[the-final-sentence]

He writes, I will eat the apple.

Kim Roberts, from “Pomology”

[librarycompany]

Did you know that there are over 7,500  apple cultivars in the world today.  7,500! Just think of all the pie!

Warder, J.A. American pomology. New York : Orange Judd and Co., c1867.