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The Best Apples to Buy and Grow (Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guide)

The Best Apples to Buy and Grow (Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guide)
From Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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Everyone--not just gardeners--will want to take a bite out of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's deliciously illustrated tribute to the luscious, healthful apple. Of course, there's plenty of information on cultivation, including the ABCs of growing the fruit at home and lots of expert tips. But foodiess who love to eat and cook with apples will also find this guide useful and enjoyable. With an encyclopedia of 60 of America's best varieties, it's handy to take along when visiting farmer's markets and roadside stands, and will help buyers choose from the bounty of treasured heirloom breeds and tasty new types. To add to the pleasure: fascinating background and stories about the apple.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #214168 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-06-28
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 120 pages

Features

  • ISBN13: 9781889538662
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Customer Reviews

Lots of useful information in a small, affordable softcover.5
I am impressed with the quantity and quality of information in this nice little book (it would fit in a vehicle's glove-box). It is written by professional apple folks -- nurserymen, orchardists, researchers, breeders and professors -- and the information is up-to-date, which includes several disease-resistant cultivars that were introduced relatively recently. There is instruction for planting, and even grafting, apple trees. An aspiring backyard orchardist would do good in buying this book, as it is especially written with this activity in mind. Example sections are: Restoring a Derelict Apple Tree, Planting an Apple Tree Hedge, and Using Apple Bags (to grow attractive fruit without pesticides being sprayed).
Not only for someone wanting to plant trees, this book is also packed with information about apple fruit. What varieties can be stored through the winter at home, which to choose for baking, for making cider, for fresh eating? The guide to 60 different apple cultivars, both antique and newer varieties, includes for each the most useful information, including appearance and taste, vigor and hardiness, susceptibility or resistance to diseases, blooming and ripening times, and more. Most of the 60 are pictured, but a handful are not. Sources of trees and fruit are listed, and a nice bit of apple history is also included. I find it easy to recommend a book of this quality.

Great book5
Library Journal
Created by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, this comprehensive guide, written by the likes of pomologists and orchard and nursery specialists, shows readers how to select, grow, and cook one of America's best fruits: apples. The bounty of information includes a history of apples in the United States and descriptions of more than 60 different kinds of apples with tips on harvesting, gardening,and deciding whether the apple is good for eating fresh or more useful if cooked, juiced, or dried. There is also information on how to grow an apple tree, even in small spaces, and a delicious recipe for apple pie. Written for novice and more experienced gardeners and apple lovers, this reasonably priced guide is a useful addition to any library.-Jennifer A. Wickes, Suite101.com, Pine Beach, NJ Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

The Best Apples to Buy and Grow5
The book is full of useful information. Virtually every type of apple is covered with info on disease resistance, how to grow, what they taste like etc. It is small and can easily be dragged around to nurseries when trying to decide what apple trees to buy to grow, which is exactly why we got the book. The reviews I read before purchasing were accurate. Thanks!