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    A Guide to Growing Apples with Information on Root-Stocks, Varieties, Cross-Pollination, Pruning, Thinning, Pests and Diseases
    A Guide to Growing Apples with Information on Root-Stocks, Varieties, Cross-Pollination, Pruning, Thinning, Pests and Diseases
    A Guide to Growing Apples with Information on Root-Stocks, Varieties, Cross-Pollination, Pruning, Thinning, Pests and Diseases
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    A Guide to Growing Apples with Information on Root-Stocks, Varieties, Cross-Pollination, Pruning, Thinning, Pests and Diseases

    By Frederick Keeble

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    This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to growing apple trees, and includes information on soil, tree forms, rootstocks, pests, varieties, and much more. This detailed yet easy-to-digest guide is profusely illustrated, and contains all the information anyone looking to grow apple trees would need to know. Although old, the information conatined herein is timeless, making this both a handy resource and a great addition to collections of vintage literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Introduction to Fruit Growing', 'The Apple', 'Origin and History', 'Soil and Aspect', 'Form of Tree', 'Rootstocks for Apples', 'Pruning of Apples', 'Insect Pests of the Apple', 'Selection of Rootstocks', 'Functional Diseases', 'Varieties of Apple', 'Descriptive Notes on Varieties', etcetera. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on growing fruit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJan 8, 2013
    ISBN9781447481324
    A Guide to Growing Apples with Information on Root-Stocks, Varieties, Cross-Pollination, Pruning, Thinning, Pests and Diseases

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      A Guide to Growing Apples with Information on Root-Stocks, Varieties, Cross-Pollination, Pruning, Thinning, Pests and Diseases - Frederick Keeble

      Diseases

      APPLES

      ROOT-STOCKS

      VERY-DWARFING STOCK

      Mailing IX ¹ (Jaune de Metz) is the very-dwarfing stock in common use. It makes small trees, suitable for gardens and for temporary ‘fillers’; excellent for cordons and for espaliers of strong-growing varieties. Its roots, though surprisingly extensive, provide a less secure anchorage than do those of the less-dwarfing stocks, and trees on it may need staking. Trees on IX come into bearing two or three years from budding or grafting, but with some varieties the fruits are unduly large and somewhat out of character. Mailing IX is probably destined to become widely used when the behaviour of trees worked on it has been more thoroughly tested.

      SEMI-DWARFING STOCKS

      Mailing II (Doucin), which is widely used, makes early-fruiting bushes, cordons and espaliers. Trees on it are moderately vigorous, very fruitful, and longer-lasting perhaps and certainly more robust than those on the very-dwarfing stock.

      VIGOROUS STOCKS

      Mailing I (Rivers’ Broad-leaved English Paradise) is the stock of this type which is in most general use. It is excellent for bushes and espaliers, and particularly for bushes of free-cropping varieties—Lane’s Prince Albert, Stirling Castle—which are apt to be stunted when worked on the dwarfing stocks. It gives also a firmer anchorage, but the trees come not so soon to maturity. The best stock for bush and trained trees on poor land.

      Mailing VI (Rivers’ Nonsuch

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