Woalbope Naturalists’ Field Club. 
THE HEREFORDSHIRE POMONA, 1882. 
THe HEREFORDSHIRE Pomona. Containing coloured Figures and Descriptions 
of the most esteemed Kinds of Apples and Pears cultivated in Great Britain. 
Edited by Robert Hogg, L.L.D., F.L.S. (London: Journal of Horticulture. 
Hereford : Jakeman and Carver.) 
THE HEREFORDSHIRE POMONA. 
THERE was not any exhibition of Apples and Pears this October. Part V. of 
The Herefordshire Pomona was published, and has been as favourably reviewed as 
any of the preceding parts, and gratefully acknowledged by Pomologists and 
Horticulturists, as the following short extract testifies. 
The fifth Part of the Woolhope Club’s Pomona—for so it may in all fairness 
be called, although it is a national work in its importance and scope—comes to 
us at a seasonable time, when the autumn fruit has been garnered, and the 
students of pomology, like the humbler lovers of apples, are rejoicing in the 
harvest of Hesperides. We have been impatient for the completion of this 
splendid work, and have been inclined to wish that it could be issued in half- 
yearly instead of yearly parts; but we must be satisfied with such progress as the 
Editor can fairly make, with due regard to the difficulties which beset him, or 
which beset the Pomona Committee of the Woolhope Club. After all, October is 
the best month in the year for such a publication ; and the eagerness of subscribers 
to have the entire work in their hands, will be less now that the fifth part out of 
seven has made its appearance. Already the great value of this Pomona, as a 
book of reference for horticulturists may be tested and proved. The present 
writer seized the opportunity, as soon as the part under notice had come into his 
possession, of comparing two fruits from his own garden with the figures and 
descriptions of the Pomona. In the case of one of these, the Rymer or Duke of 
York apple, the achievement of Editor and artists is absolutely perfect ; and this 
comparison merely confirms the opinion which we have already passed on the 
preceding portions of the work—namely, that Zhe Herefordshire Pomona cannot 
fail to be a standard and model for all future pomologists, and a pattern text-book 
of horticultural science. We are glad to note that the sixth part is promised for 
the summer of next year, and the concluding part (with the necessary index— 
which we hope will contain the synonymes of the names adopted by Dr, Hogg) for 
