The Herefordshire Pomona

containing coloured figures in addition to descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of apples in addition to pears.

Source: The Herefordshire Pomona, Volume II

This Victorian live on is a catalog of hundreds of apples in addition to pears that were displayed at the annual tumble shows of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club over a menstruation of 10 years inwards the after one-half of the Nineteenth Century.

The most hitting chemical gene of this publication is the color plates, reproductions of watercolors through chromolithography.

Please click on the sample plates to thought the richness in addition to item of these images. Explore farther at the Biodiversity Heritage Library's Herefordshire Pomona page.

Source: The Herefordshire Pomona, Volume I

(Most of the apples are rendered calyx up, stalk down.)

The master copy Pomona, published inwards 1878 in addition to 1884 inwards a impress run of almost 600, is a collector's item. Cornell University allowed the Biodiversity Library to scan its copy, which took house inwards Apr of this year.

Meanwhile, the Folio Society has published (or is soliciting orders for) a limited-edition reproduction of the Pomona.

The web page for that project includes farther information almost the master copy Pomona, equally does the Pomona's Wikipedia page.

The Herefordshire Pomona was edited past times Henry Graves Bull. Its watercolors were rendered past times Bull's daughter, Edith, in addition to past times Alice Ellis. Robert Hogg was technical editor.

The live on includes culinary in addition to desert apples, culinary and desert pears, cider apples, in addition to perry pears, amongst carve upward indexes for each inwards Volume II.

The mo mass also includes a listing of recommended cider apples in addition to perry pears, in addition to descriptions of a few varieties of quince in addition to medlar.

Links

• The Herefordshire Pomona online
• About the Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Further information from Wikipedia in addition to the Folio Society
• Chromolithography

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