Every one who has studied cattle-breeding, or turned pigeon-fancier, or "pomologist," must have been struck by the extreme modifiability or plasticity of those kinds of animals and plants which have been subjected to such artificial conditions as are imposed by domestication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

I would love to be a pomologist; I am very interested in apples at the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Conversation with Carol Shields] Reference

"The Pluot was game-changing in my mind," said Tom Gradziel, a pomologist at the University of California, Davis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floyd Zaiger: 'Pluot' Creator Continues Perfecting Fruit With Meticulous, Low-Tech Breeding Methods] Reference

A bird in the orchard is a sort of scavenger and pomologist combined, and does his share in giving you a dish of fruit for dinner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference

PRESIDENT MacDANIELS: This matter of alternate bearing is one that has plagued the pomologist for a great many years, and one in which we made little progress, with apples for example, until with hormone sprays the trees could be thinned very early in the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference

The tree becomes a manipulated subject, comforting to the eye of the thrifty pomologist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1] Reference

"It's like triage," said Shackel, a University of California at Davis pomologist and plant science professor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

The anecdote is related by a celebrated pomologist, concerning a horse employed in his nurseries for over fifteen years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minnie's Pet Horse] Reference

University of Pennsylvania, 1865, farmers 'institute lecturer, former state pomologist, has 50 acres of apples and peaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know] Reference

Now and then such a tree produces superior fruit; then a discriminating pomologist discovers it, names it a new variety, and propagates it as other varieties are propagated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1] Reference

'Of course not being a farmer or a fruitarian, a botanist, an agronomist or a pomologist, I would need to seek the knowledge, actually lots of it, from an expert in the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference

She had been Miss Elizabeth Clarke Manning, the daughter of Richard Manning, whose ancestors came to New England about 1680, and sister of Richard and of Robert Manning, a well-known pomologist of the same place.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Hawthorne] Reference

The color, form, size, and texture of a leaf indicate to the expert pomologist the nature of the fruit which the tree will bear, but how much more important is it to understand the harmonies of human development.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

Should a sceptical pomologist deny that there was such a thing as a Baldwin, or mistake it for a Newtown Pippin, we should be glad to refer to him; but if we were hungry, and an orchard were handy, we should not trouble him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Law in the Spiritual World] Reference

Agricultural Bureau, the R.verend John Trimble and J.R. Thompson of the Treasury Department, and F.M. M.Dowell, a pomologist of Wayne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics] Reference

“pomologist,” must have been struck by the extreme modifiability or plasticity of those kinds of animals and plants which have been subjected to such artificial conditions as are imposed by domestication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference