FRUIT CULTURE.

Grey River Argus, 3 April 1922, Page 8

FRUIT CULTURE.

A USEFUL BOOK. We have to acknowledge from Alessrs Whitcombe and Tombs a copy of a now interesting ami valuable little publication “Fruit Growing for Beginners, ’ ’ a volume written by Air F. W. Harvey, F.R.H.S., and forming one of the “Country Life” series of books. It is a simple ami concise handbook, dealing with every aspect of fruit culture in a masterly way, yet so simply that the mere tyro is made to grasp the fundamental scientific principles of the art without difficulty. The writer solves all the problems that are apt to upset the cultivator whose experience has been limited. Soils, siles, grafting, and other methods of fruit tree propagation, types of fruit trees (standards, pyramids, bushes, cordons, horizontal, etc.;; planting and staking, pruning, and manuring are all treated of in a, most fascinating way. The species of fruits dealt with include apples, plums, cherries, pears, apricots, raspberries, strawberries, grapes, quinces, walnuts, gooseberries and currants. The I2G pages of this book contain a mine of knowledge which nobody with a fruit garden should be without when it can be so cheaply obtained. CL. -