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Culture
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Currant & Gooseberry |
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CULTURE BOOKS |
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Small Fruit Crop
Management--edited by Gene Galletta and David Himelrick. Complete
over-view of small fruit production and management - from site selection
and marketing to botany and cultivar selection. Each fruit crop thoroughly
described by recognized experts and carefully illustrated. Chapters cover
basic scientific approaches; genetics, botany, morphology, and physiology;
commercial cultural and managements practices; and back-ground information
on marketing and economics. A MUST for anyone thinking about or already
engaged in growing berries or other small fruit commercially. Hardcover,
602 pages, c. 1990 / Catalog #8 --$115.00 |
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STRAWBERRY BOOKS |
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Strawberry
Production Guide
This guide is intended as a comprehensive resource for both novice and experienced
strawberry growers in northeastern North America. It provides information
on all aspects of strawberry culture for the Midwestern and northeastern
United States and eastern Canada. Catalog #7-- $48.00 |
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Strawberry
Deficiency Symptoms--A visual and plant analysis guide to fertilization
by Albert Ulrich, M.A.E. Mostafa, and William W. Allen. This book is designed
to help strawberry growers improve their fertilization programs to produce
the best fruit without crop loss due to nutrient deficiency and without
nutrient excesses leading to possible nitrate-nitrogen or other ground water
contamination.
Catalog #4 -- $17.95 |
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Growing
Strawberries in Wisconsin--This publication by B.R. Smith, D.L.
Mahr, P.S. McManus, and T.R. Roper describes how to plant, tend and harvest
strawberries for bountiful production.
Catalog #5-- $7.00 |
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Strawberry
Eats & Treats
112 pages with 86 recipes, 4-Color Softcover. Practical information on picking,
buying pre-picked berries, tips for handling after purchase and recommendations
for freezing. Along with recipes are quotes, historic facts, forklore, poetry
and more.
Catalog #23--$10.95 |
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RASPBERRY BOOKS |
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Growing
Raspberries in Wisconsin--by T.R. Roper, D.L. Mahr, and S.N.
Jeffers. A how to book on growing well-established, vigorous, disease and
insect-free productive plantings.
Catalog #6 -- $7.00 |
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BRAMBLE BOOKS |
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Bramble
Production Guide--Edited by David Handley and Marvin Pritts,
and authored by 15 bramble specialists. Covers all aspects of bramble production
from site selection and preparation through plant selection. Also discusses
proper harvest and handling, transportation of fruit to market, enterprise
budgeting. Includes a key to problem identification and diagnosis, provides
reference numbers for related text and photos. Except for state pesticide
information, this guide provides all the information necessary for the grower
to successfully produce raspberries and blackberries. A MUST book for anyone
thinking about or already engaged in commercial raspberry or blackberry
production.
Catalog #9 -- $48.00 |
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Compendium
of Raspberry and Blackberry Diseases and Insects--edited by M.A.
Ellis, R.H. Converse, R.N. Williams, and B. Williamson. Published by American
Phytopathological Society. The sourcebook for growers, crop advisors, consultants,
students and plant pathologist. A practical reference for identification,
cause, epidemiology and control of diseases and insect pests of raspberries,
blackberries, and their hybrids. 1991 Softcover, 140 color photographs.
Catalog #2-- $49.00 |
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Bramble
Production, The Marketing and Management of Raspberries and Blackberries--by
Perry Crandall, PhD. This is the newest text available on bramble growing.
Professor Crandall's knowledge of brambles can be used to recommend or adopt
management programs specially designed to produce optimum yields with maximum
profits. Students and professionals will find Bramble Production to be a
scientifically based, easy-to-understand, comprehensive discussion of all
facets of berry production. The principle emphasis is on American production,
but grower practices in other parts of the world are included, which makes
this a valuable guide book for growers all around the world. Hardcover --Catalog
#3 $54.95, Softcover--Catalog #3A $34.95 |
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The
Backyard Berry Book--A hands-on guide to growing berries, brambles,
and vine fruit in the home garden, by Stella Otto. Other fruits include:
Strawberries, Rhubarb, Blueberries, Lingonberries, Currant and Gooseberries,
Grapes, and Kiwifruit. "....packed with reliable methods and details
of berry growing one seldom encounters in books twice this one's size....a
thorough guide to the all-important first step of preparing a site for berries,
that it actually can serve as priority reading in starting any kind of gardening."-Gene
Logson. 284 pages, Softcover
Catalog #11 --$19.95
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BLUEBERRY BOOKS |
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Highbush
Blueberry Production Guide--Parallels the popular Bramble Production
Guide, covering the history, plant growth habit, site selection and preparation,
cultivars, establishment, maintenance, pest management, water management,
spray application technology, harvesting and handling, marketing and even
crop budgeting. Forty-six blueberry specialists from across the country
have combined their efforts to produce this guide. It includes 27 tables,
24 figures, two appendixes, a glossary, and general and chapter-specific
resource lists, in addition to 168 full-color photographs and a key to diagnostic
blueberry problems. Catalog #10 -- $48.00 |
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GRAPE BOOKS |
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From Vines to
Wines--The complete guide to growing grapes and making your
own wine by Jeff Cox. The role of the author of a book like this one is
to be a synthesizer and coordinator of knowledge for selecting the vines,
growing the grapes, and making the wine--most of it developed or discovered
by other people.
(Catalog #15) $19.95
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CURRANT &
GOOSEBERRY BOOKS |
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Currants
and Gooseberries Culture Guide 4-Color, Softcover. 43 pages.
A complete production guide by Monique Audette and Michel J. Lareau. This
book is designed to help establish your own plantation. The authors have
prepared this guide to give you cultivation information, history, characteristics
and requirements, plus cultural practices, economic considerations along
with diseases and pests. Catalog #25 -- $15.00 |
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