American Pomological Society
Ode, sung at the grand social banquet given by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society to the American Pomological Society, at its quarter-centennial anniversary, September 12, 1873, in the Boston Music Hall. Words by Miss Hannah Flagg Gould.
The American Pomological Society was founded by Marshall Pinckney Wilder in 1848 to foster the growing of fruit and the development of new varieties, and is the oldest fruit organization in North America.[1]
Publications
The organization's primary publication is the Journal of the American Pomological Society. This journal was previously known as the Fruit Varieties Journal. The society also publishes the Register of Fruit and Nut Varieties in cooperation with the American Society for Horticultural Science.[1]