Excerpt from A Laboratory Manual in Systematic Pomology: An Effort to Place Before the Students of Pomology in the Michigan Agricultural College a Means by Which an Intimate and Accurate Knowledge of Pomology May Be Acquired Having thus briefly defined the subject under considera tion, let us glance at the methods and objects of study. Pomol'ogy is to be. Studied by you as a science. Sciences are properly studied either wholly in the laboratory or in the laboratory supplemented by text-books and lectures. Sys tematic pomology will be taught wholly in the laboratory with this, hand-book as a guide and a supplement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.