THE PRINCIPLES OF FRUIT- 
GROWING. 
CHAPTER I. 
INTRODUCTORY DISCUSSION, 
FRUIT-GROWING and pomology are synonymous 
terms. They comprise the whole art of raising 
fruits and fruit-trees, and the applications of the 
various sciences thereto. It is impossible to define 
what a fruit is, in the sense in which the term is 
universally understood in pomological writings. It is 
best delimited by giving a list of those products 
which are commonly known as fruits. If a defini- 
tion were attempted of the use of the word in its 
pomological application, it would be approximately 
correct to say that a fruit is the edible product of 
a woody or a tree-like plant,—as of a trec, bush, or 
vine,— and which is intimately associated in its de- 
velopment with the flowcr. This conception of a 
fruit is wholly unlike the botanical idea, for the 
botanist defines the fruit to be the ripened pericarp 
and attachments. It should be said, however, that 
this confusion in terminology is not the fault of 
