Illustrated Guide to Pruning [Paperback]

Ed Gilman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0766822710 | ISBN-13: 978-0766822719 | Publication Date: January 15, 2002 | Edition: 2

Illustrated Guide to Pruning, second edition guides the reader through the appropriate training and pruning practices that are vital to developing sustainable structure in the first 25 years of a tree's life. It provides universal as well as species-specific pruning for such trees as palms, eucalyptus, and conifers and offers a variety of information about the challenges associated with pruning, including disease prevention. Numerous illustrations spanning a 20-year period identify how to develop good tree structure. This completely updated guide to pruning also provides a detailed protocol for training trees in a production wholesale nursery. Containing simple tables, lists and strategies, this text makes it easy to teach the presented pruning techniques in accordance with nationally recognized ANSI A-300 standards.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"I would like to begin by stating…this is an excellent, well-written text. Virtually all of this text is up-to-date and theoretically sound… The text does an excellent job at describing the practices in more detail."

"The project's three greatest strengths are the use of illustrations (with a few minor modifications, in some instances), the accompanying easy to understand text, and the author's compelling, supported reasons for making his pruning recommendations." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Dr. Edward Gilman is a professor at the University of Florida. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 2 edition (January 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0766822710
• ISBN-13: 978-0766822719
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #569,407 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Written By A Pro, May 9, 2003

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Charles Laird (Kerrville, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Illustrated Guide to Pruning (Paperback)

This 178 page book is one of the best I have seen so far. It is published by a web based educational company that has a broad educational scope. It is slightly textbookish but not at all difficult for anyone who is serious about having more than a magazine article knowledge about pruning. Pruning is presented as a horticultural science not as someone's idea of what might be best. The book is well organized and about as comprehensive as a 178 page book could be. It is a serious little book. For example, on page 61 there are 24 tree drawings showing different limb configurations and the required pruning cuts to develop a dominant leader. You can learn a lot from that one page.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what we needed, March 31, 2007

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B. Martinek - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Illustrated Guide to Pruning (Paperback)

This book was just what we needed to be able to show our nursery employees the PROPER way (not just they way they thought it shoud be done) to prune our newly planted trees. The illustrations really help, also. I am going to make this text part of our orientation process for new hires.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Illustrated Guide to Pruning, March 1, 2008

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Eric Larusson Villager Nursery, Inc. "Mountai... (Truckee, California US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Illustrated Guide to Pruning (Paperback)

This is a good TEXT book. Very Good.

I cut off the spine, punched holes in it and put it in a binder because it is a TEXT / Workbook. It is also a terribly expensive paperback book for those of us working in the trades and not IN higher education or funded research.