Traditional Orcharding: Practical Methods for Growing and Marketing Fruit

Sears, Fred C.

ISBN 10: 1592280021 / ISBN 13: 9781592280025

Published by The Lyons Press, 2003

About this Item

Anyone interested in simply growing fruit in the backyard or running a large commercial orchard, will find Traditional Orcharding an invaluable handbook. Originally published in 1914 as a textbook for students of agriculture, this authoritative guide contains valuable advice, from choosing the heaviest yielding varieties to pruning for maximum productivity. Along with over one hundred and fifty practical and historical illustrations, Sears has discarded inadequate methods for maintaining fruit trees and included only those that have stood the test of time. Traditional Orcharding is an essential guide for both the hobbyist and the expert grower, and a classic in the field.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Traditional Orcharding: Practical Methods for Growing and Marketing Fruit
• Publisher: The Lyons Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592280021
• ISBN 13: 9781592280025
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 15 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Farming

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Synopsis

Every reader, whether interested in growing fruit in the backyard or running a large commercial orchard, will find TRADITIONAL ORCHARDING an invaluable handbook. Originally published in 1914 as a textbook for students of agriculture, this authoritative guide contains valuable advice, from choosing the heaviest yielding varieties to pruning for maximum productivity. Along with 157 practical and historical illustrations, Sears has carefully sifted and discarded inadequate methods and included only those that are tried and true. TRADITIONAL ORCHARDING is an essential guide for both the hobbyist and the expert grower.

About the Author

FRED C. SEARS was Professor of Pomology at Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

KARY C. DAVIS, PH.D. was Professor of Agriculture at the School of Country Life, George Peabody College for Teachers, in Nashville, Tennessee.