pomologist

Considered America's most famous pomologist and a revolutionary in agriculture, Burbank contends that the peach evolved from the smooth-skinned nectarine, developing fuzz as protection against the elements, insects and fungi.

The person who is a fruit grower or fruit scientists is called a pomologist. People who work in the industry must be able to propagate fruit and nut trees, as well as plant and transplant, prune, thin, train, and fertilize them.

Dave Furee, a pomologist from the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, explains the tree's longevity by pointing to the glacial terrain under the farm.

Wolpert joined the department of pomology at U.C., Davis in 1983 as a postdoctoral research pomologist and joined the department of viticulture and enology as associate cooperative extension specialist in 1985.

Pomologist William Coxe wrote in 1817 that Maiden's Blush was popular in Philadelphia markets.

"We get socked in with tule fog in winter," says University of California pomologist Scott Johnson, explaining the region's peach preeminence.

Don Durzan, a pomologist at the University of California at Davis, has had good luck growing the edible portion of cherries in culture, but points out that nobody is ready yet to scale the project up to produce cherry jelly in a factory.

Theodore DeJong, UC Cooperative Extension Pomologist, responds: Technically prunes are plums that are used for drying.

"You look down the valley to Riverside six or eight miles away, and the groves are in one solid mass," wrote renowned pomologist G.