This early work is a fascinating read for any gardening enthusiast or
historian, but contains much information that is still useful and
practical today. It is a thoroughly recommended title for the amateur or
professional horticulturalist and arborist's shelf. Extensively
illustrated with 12 plates and dozens more text and full page line
drawings. Contents Include: Making a Start; The Apple; The Pear; Plums;
Cherries; Apricots, Peaches, and Nectarines; The Fig and the Vine; Cob
Nuts, Filberts, and Walnuts; Gooseberries; Black Currants; Red and White
Currants; Raspberries; Blackberries, Loganberries, and Unusual Berries;
Strawberries; Special Fruits: Medlars, Mulberries, Quinces, Crab-Apples;
Special Fruits: Barberry, Bilberry, Cranberry, Cowberry, Cape Plum,
Wineberry; Reasons for Unfruitfulness in Fruit Trees; Practices that
Pay; Grafting and Budding; Picking, Storing, and the Storage House;
Pests and Their Control; Spraying and Dusting Machines; Sprays and Dusts
and other Formula; and Index. Many of the earliest books, particularly
those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and
increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in
affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and
artwork.
