The Fruit Expert [Paperback]

D.G. Hessayon (Author)

Book Description

Series: Expert | Publication Date: June 30, 1991

The essential guide to growing all types of fruit. Everything you need to know about: Choosing the best apples, pears and plums for your garden. Planting and caring for tree fruit. Buying and growing soft fruit. Getting the best taste from your fruit. How to prune. Dealing with fruit problems and pests. Shop-bought fruit. Reliable, easy-to-follow advice and information from EXPERT books - the world's best-selling gardening series.

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About the Author

Dr David Hessayon initiated a major innovation in gardening publications in 1959 with the first of his Gardening Expert guides. These best-selling guides have had an unparalleled influence on gardening over the past 50 years. There are over 51 million copies in print. He was awarded the 1993 Gardening Book of the Year Award from the Garden Writers Guild and received the first-ever Lifetime Achievement 'Oscar' at the National British Book Awards. In 1999 he received a Guinness World Record Award as 'Britain's best-selling living author of the 1990s'. He lives in Essex, and has two daughters and four grandchildren.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Expert (June 30, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0903505312
• ISBN-13: 978-0903505314
• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 7.5 x 9.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #880,625 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars How Useful Is It?, March 28, 1999

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Charles Hackenberry/[e-mail] (Central Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fruit Expert (Paperback)

How useful the "Fruit Expert" is depends on where you live. If you're English, this is probably a fine book for you; if you live in the States ... keep looking. I wish I had known this before I bought it; I wish Amazon would give the publisher's city for all their garden books.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The "Temperate Climate" Fruit Expert., January 19, 2004

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M. E. Volmar - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Fruit Expert (Paperback)

This beautifully illustrated and photographed book is a very informative and easy to use reference for everyone who wants expert advice on how to plant and keep a fruit garden. This wonderfully organized book is divided into six sections:
* The Fruit in the Garden: gives advice on how to choose the right type of fruit for your garden.
* The Tree Fruit: a guide to buying, planting and keeping specific fruits that grow on trees, including apples, pears, plums, cherries, peaches and nectarines, apricots, figs, mulberries and quinces.
* The Soft Fruit: a guide to buying, selecting site and soil, planting and keeping, feeding and mulching, and protecting from birds and viruses fruits that don't grow on trees, including berries, currants, grapes, melons and kiwis.
* Shop-Bought Fruit: an illustrated reference on how to recognize fruits available in the market, including tips on how to buy, preserve, ripen and eat them.
* A Glossary.
* An Index.
As an added bonus, both the Tree Fruit and the Soft Fruit sections contain a visual reference to help you identify several different varieties of the same fruit, and a very thorough guide on solving common fruit troubles.
The information given in this book for the fruits listed is very complete; however, since it was written for a British public, it only lists temperate climate fruits. Other fruits like banana, orange, papaya, avocado, pineapple, mango, grapefruit, lemon, etc. are not included in the book, except for their brief entries in the Shop-Bought Fruit section.
I recommend buying this book if you want to start your own temperate climate fruit garden, and complement it with other books when you are ready to add to it some tropical fruits.
--Reviewed by M. E. Volmar

5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource!, December 6, 2011

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I first checked this book out from the library when we moved to a new house that had established fruit trees and bushes. It was full of so much great information that I had to buy it for future reference. Loved the amount of photos and descriptions of trees, since I wasn't exactly sure which apple trees I had; but now I have a pretty good idea!