Mastering Fruit Cultivation: 6 Classic Books on Growing Techniques
Classic Guides to Orchard Planning, Pruning, Propagation, and Heirloom VarietiesBy Gerrit Parmile Wilder, U. P. Hedrick, R. M. Kellogg Co., F. A. Waugh, Albert H. Benson
Length73h 59m
About this audiobook
Mastering Fruit Cultivation gathers six classic horticultural texts into a capacious guide to the art and science of growing fruit. Moving between practical instruction, botanical observation, orchard planning, varietal selection, pruning, propagation, pest management, and harvesting, the volume preserves the varied prose of agricultural manuals, experimental reports, and reflective rural writing. Its most compelling passages illuminate the intimate relation between soil, climate, cultivation, and patient observation, situating fruit growing as both a technical discipline and a cultural practice. The contributors represent a formative tradition of American pomology and agricultural education, in which nursery expertise, experiment-station research, commercial horticulture, and public instruction converged. Their combined perspectives reflect the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century movement to professionalize farming through systematic trial, classification, and the circulation of reliable knowledge. Rather than offering a single doctrine, the collection juxtaposes voices shaped by different regions and institutional settings, revealing how fruit culture developed through debate, adaptation, and accumulated local experience. This volume is recommended for gardeners, historians of agriculture, students of environmental practice, and readers drawn to the literature of rural life. It offers an unusual opportunity to compare methods and assumptions across several foundational works while tracing enduring questions about stewardship, productivity, and ecological responsiveness. Read together, these texts provide both useful cultivation knowledge and a rich dialogue on how orchards are imagined, managed, and sustained.
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GenreScience and Nature, Literary Classics
Length73 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Pears of New York
2PREFACE
3INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS
4CHAPTER I HISTORY OF THE PEAR (pt. 1)
5CHAPTER I HISTORY OF THE PEAR (pt. 2)
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6CHAPTER II SPECIES OF PEARS AND THEIR CHARACTERS
7CHAPTER III PEAR CULTURE
8CHAPTER IV LEADING VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 1)
9CHAPTER IV LEADING VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 2)
10CHAPTER IV LEADING VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 3)
11CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 1)
12CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 2)
13CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 3)
14CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 4)
15CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 5)
16CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 6)
17CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 7)
18CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 8)
19CHAPTER V MINOR VARIETIES OF PEARS (pt. 9)
20BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES, WITH ABBREVIATIONS USED
21Footnote
22The Peaches of New York
23PREFACE
24CHAPTER I HISTORY OF THE PEACH (pt. 1)
25CHAPTER I HISTORY OF THE PEACH (pt. 2)
26CHAPTER II BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE PEACH
27CHAPTER III COMMERCIAL PEACH-GROWING IN AMERICA
28CHAPTER IV PEACH-GROWING IN NEW YORK
29CHAPTER V LEADING VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 1)
30CHAPTER V LEADING VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 2)
31CHAPTER V LEADING VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 3)
32CHAPTER VI THE MINOR VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 1)
33CHAPTER VI THE MINOR VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 2)
34CHAPTER VI THE MINOR VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 3)
35CHAPTER VI THE MINOR VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 4)
36CHAPTER VI THE MINOR VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 5)
37CHAPTER VI THE MINOR VARIETIES OF PEACHES (pt. 6)
38BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES, WITH ABBREVIATIONS USED
39Fruits of Queensland
40PREFACE.
41THE PINEAPPLE.
42CITRUS FRUIT.
43THE PEACH.
44Fruits of the Hawaiian Islands
45Fruits of the Hawaiian Islands
46PREFACE
47Eugenia brasiliensis. BRAZILIAN PLUM, OR SPANISH CHERRY.
48Citrus medica var. limonum. ROUGH-SKIN LEMON.
49Calophyllum inophyllum. "KAMANI."
50Passiflora, var. foetida.
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