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Modern Fruit Science; orchard and small fruit culture. Norman Franklin Childers Professor and Research Specialist in Horticulture Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, Formerly Assistant Director and Senior Plant Physiologist United States Department of Agriculture Experimental Station in Puerto Rico, Associate in Horticulture, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Assistant Professor in Horticulture The Ohio State University.
LIBRA - Blank Collection SB355 .C46 1961
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Childers, Norman Franklin, 1910-2011.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fruit-culture.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (donor)
- Corbett, James T. (previous owner)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 893, [3] pages illustrations, maps 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second Edition
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Horticultural Publications, Rutgers-The State University, 1961.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Establishing the Fruit Planting
- Apple Regions, Production, and Varieties
- Pruning Apple Trees
- Soil Management for Apples
- Flower-Bud Formation, Pollination, and Fruit Set in the Apple
- Thinning Apple Fruits and Alternate Bearing
- Grafting and Budding Trees
- Freezing Injury to Apples
- Harvesting, Packing and Processing Apples
- Storing Apples
- Marketing Apples
- Pear and Quince Culture
- Peach, Nectarine, Apricot, and Almond
- Culture of Plums
- Cherry Culture
- Edible Nuts, Minor Tree Crops
- Control of Insects and Diseases
- Judging Contests and Exhibitions
- Grape Growing
- Strawberry Growing
- Bush Berry Culture.
- Notes:
- "Corrigenda": p. xiv.
- Includes index.
- Review Questions and bibliographical references at end of each chapter.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has signature of James T. Corbett Sept. 1963.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Childers, Norman Franklin, 1910- Modern fruit science.
- OCLC:
- 2989362
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