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Fruit Growing

Rural Studies Activity Guide Book

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 1966
  • Latest edition
  • Author: R. T. Dixon
  • Editors: S. McB. Carson, R. W. Colton
  • Language: English

Fruit Growing studies fruits, including its characterization and kinds; essential agricultural, horticultural, and silvicultural practices; and consumption. This book first… Read more

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Fruit Growing studies fruits, including its characterization and kinds; essential agricultural, horticultural, and silvicultural practices; and consumption. This book first qualifies what fruit is and then discusses some fruits such as berries and bush fruits. Various practices in growing, maintaining, and harvesting fruits are then examined, including cutting, layering, pruning, stooling, grafting, and pruning. How to plan and maintain a fruit garden is also explained. The latter part concerns itself with fruit storage, preparation, and record keeping. This text is a very helpful guide for those interested in putting up their own fruit garden, as well as to those in the field of agriculture, horticulture, human nutrition, and food technology.

Table of contents



1. What is a Fruit ?


2. The Fruits We Grow


3. Strawberries


4. Raspberries


5. Blackberries


6. The Bush Fruits—Blackcurrants


7. The Bush Fruits—Redcurrants and Whitecurrants


8. Gooseberries


9. Cuttings


10. Enemies of Soft Fruits


11. Controlling Tree Growth


12. Some Rootstocks


13. Stooling


14. Layering


15. Forms of Trees and Bushes


16. The Restricted Shapes


17. How to Bud a Fruit Tree


18. Grafting


19. Relation of Rootstock and Scion


20. An Introduction to Pruning


21. Starting Aright: Shaping a Bush Apple Tree


22. Pruning for Fruit


23. Manuring Fruit Trees and Bushe (1)


24. Manuring Fruit Trees and Bushes (2)


25. Rogues and Suckers


26. More Enemies


27. Friends in Deed


28. A Crop Begins


29. Diseases of Fruit Trees


30. Apple and Pear Scab


31. Planting and Staking


32. The Top and Bottom of It


33. Planning a Fruit Garden


34. Storing Apples and Pears


35. Shapes and Sizes


36. Cooking Trials


37. Keeping Records

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 1966
  • Language: English

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