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The peaches of New York
U. P. Hedrick and George Henry Howe
Every peach worth growing in New York, keyed, described, and pictured: U. P. Hedrick's monumental survey. He traces the history of the peach from Asia through Europe to America, then catalogs the varieties in exhaustive detail. Thorough, authoritative, and beautifully complete. The definitive reference for the fruit and its growers. Learn the whole story and every variety of the peach from a master pomologist.
Every copy includes a printable PDF edition, a beautifully typeset book you can print, mark up in the margins, and keep on your shelf. Yours the moment you own it.
132 chapters
- 1THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK BY U. P. HEDRICK
- 2PREFACE
- 3TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 4CHAPTER I HISTORY OF THE PEACH
- 5THE ORIGIN OF THE PEACH
- 6HAS THE PEACH COME FROM THE ALMOND?
- 7THE PEACH IN ASIA
- 8THE PEACH IN EUROPE
- 9THE PEACH IN AMERICA
- 10SEEDLINGS GIVE WAY TO BUDDED TREES
- 11THE CARE OF THE PEACH IN COLONIAL TIMES
- 12ADAPTABILITY AND VARIABILITY IN THE PEACH
- 13CHAPTER II BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE PEACH
- 14PLACE OF THE PEACH IN THE GENUS PRUNUS
- 15TREE- AND FRUIT-CHARACTERS OF THE PEACH
- 16PRUNUS PERSICA Stokes.
- 17THE NECTARINE
- 18PRUNUS DAVIDIANA (Carrière) Franchet
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