HOGG, Robert.

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The Apple & Pear as Vintage Fruits. First edition, review copy, inscribed "with the publisher's compliments" on the front free endpaper. This catalogue by one of the leading experts in fruit cultivation is based on the Herefordshire Pomona (1876-1885), a "project embodying Hogg's aim of providing accurate information to growers" (ODNB). Hogg's (1818-1897) research trips across Britain and Europe visiting fruit growers resulted in his groundbreaking British Pomology (1851), in which he introduced a system classifying apple varieties. "His authority as a pomologist was sought by the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, in Herefordshire, which aimed to restore Herefordshire's former supremacy in fruit growing by embarking on an ambitious publishing project, to record the best varieties of cultivated apples and pears" (ODNB). The resulting Herefordshire Pomona was published across seven issues and was profusely illustrated; the present work was intended to make the Pomona accessible in a condensed form to a wider public, with illustrations simplified by the co-editor of the Pomona, Henry Graves Bull (1818-1885).The Apple & Pear as Vintage Fruits was published in the same year that Hogg purchased the Journal of Horticulture, which he had co-edited since 1861. As a member of the Royal Horticultural Society, he advocated for the role of practical gardeners in its governance rather than high-society honorary members. A variety of apple, "Doctor Hogg", is named after him, and in 1898 the

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