Amateur Fruit Growing: A Practical Guide to the Home Growing of Fruit for Home Use and the Market. Written with Special Reference to Colder Climates.
St. Paul: Webb Publishing Company, 1905. Later printing. Hardcover. 138 pages. Hardcover, in fair condition, bound in green cloth with black lettering and decoration on the front cover. Covers worn at corners; previous owner's name on front cover and front pastedown; remains of erased pencil marks on front free endpaper; pages browned; rear hinge quite weak, and final page of advertisements is torn four inches along the inner margin. Item #967
First published in 1893. The author was a horticulture teacher in the Department of Agriculture at the University of Minnesota. Sections on strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, currants and gooseberries, grapes, cranberries, dwarf juneberries (service berries), sand cherries (ground cherries), Russian mulberries, apples, plums, cherries, and budding and grafting techniques. Illustrated with line drawings.
Price: $8.50