POMOLOGY IN GENERAL 3 



always necessary, first, to have it well grown 

 and correctly named. 



Yet the three branches are easily separated. 

 It is no uncommon thing to find a man who 

 knows at a glance all the leading varieties of 

 apples or plums, with their correct names, and 

 who is yet not capable of growing any of the 

 varieties successfully. That man would be a 

 good systematic pomologist, but a poor prac- 

 tical one. The next man may be able to grow 

 the finest grades of fruit, and yet be unable 

 to market it at a profit. Such a man would 

 be strong on practical pomology, but weak on 

 the commercial side. 



Pomology, it should be observed, is a 

 branch of horticulture. Other nearly co- 

 ordinate branches are olericulture (dealing 

 with vegetables), floriculture (dealing with 

 flowers), and arboriculture (dealing with 

 trees). 



In order to locate the subject more pre- 

 cisely we ought to bear in mind that horticul- 

 ture, in its turn, is a branch of agriculture. 

 More strictly speaking, horticulture is a 

 branch of agronomy, and agronomy is a 

 branch of agriculture. Agriculture is sepa- 

 rated into two subdivisions: zootechny (the 



