Free EBooks on Fruit

The Australasian Fruit Culturist
By David Alexander Crichton, 1893
Click to download

Cyclopedia of Hardy Fruits
By U.P. Hedrick (1922)
Click to download

Beautifully Illustrated Fruit Growing Book

The Fruit Grower's Guide, by John Wright 1891.

Old-fashioned Recipes for Fruit Dishes and Preserves

Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management

Fruit in General

The Australasian Fruit Culturist, . - Crichton, David Alexander.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

The Fruit Manual : a guide to the fruits and fruit trees of Great Britain - Hogg, Robert, 1818-1897
Contains wonderful lists of heritage apples!

Cultivation of Fruit Trees . - Coxe, William, 1762-1831.

Fruits and Fruit-trees,  Leo Hartley, 1818-1904
 
The Whole Art of Husbandry

by John Mortimer (1716)

Eat California Fruit - Southern Pacific company, USA 1904.
 
The Western Fruit Book - Elliott, F. R. (Franklin Reuben), 1817-1878
 
Fruit Culture - California, USA. State Board of Horticulture 1890

Fruit Culture Volume 1 - International Library of Technology 1912. Essentials of fruit culture, varieties of apples, apple culture, apple pests and injuries, apple harvesting, storing and marketing, pear culture, cherries, apricots, and quinces.

Fruit Culture Volume 2 - International Library of Technology 1912. Peach, plum, and grape culture, strawberries, raspberries, dewberries, currants, and gooseberries.

The Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America - Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852

Fruit Confectionery:
The Art of Confectionary Shewing t.
- Lambert, Edward

Apples

The Apple and its Varieties:  Hogg, Robert, 1818-1897

The Book of the Apple - Thomas, H. H. (Harry Higgott) USA 1902

Nomenclature of the Apple - Ragan, William Henry, comp.

Varieties of Apples (1896) Author: Burrill, Thomas Jonathan, 1839-1916; McCluer, G. W. (George Washington), 1857

British Pomology; Author: Hogg, Robert, 1818-1897

Contains excellent lists of heritage apple varieties

Two Hundred and Nine Ways of Preparing the Apple Author: Mackay, L. Gertrude (1913)

A treatise on cyder-making
By Hugh Stafford 1753

 


Peaches & Nectarines
Peach Culture - Fulton, James Alexander, 1822-

The Peach and Nectarine : their history, varieties, and cultivation - Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901

A Treatise on the Management of Peach and Nectarine Trees: Either in Forcing-houses, Or on Hotwalls. - Thomas Kyle

Pears

Pear Culture for Profit - Quinn, Patrick T
 

Cherries

The Cherry, together with reports and papers on pear, plum, peach, grape, and small fruit - American Pomological Society
 

Plums

A Practical Treatise on Plum Growing (1888) Author: Cope, Eliphas

Quinces

Quince culture - Pratt, Benjamin Gildersleeve USA

Figs

Fig Culture: Edible figs: their culture and curing (1897) Author: Eisen, Gustav.

More fig books -

The Smyrna fig : at home and abroad : Roeding, George Christian, 1868-

Fig caprification : or the setting of the fruit - Lelong, B. M. (Byron Martin), 1856-1901

The Kadota fig; a treatise on its origin, planting and care - Clark, W. Sam, 1873-


The fig: its history, culture, and curing, with a descriptive catalogue of the known varieties of figs (Volume nos. 4-10) - Eisen, Gustav, 1847-

The fruit cultivator's manual - Bridgeman, Thomas, d. 1850


The J.C. Forkner fig-gardens recipes; how to serve figs in the home - Forkner, J. C. (Jesse Clayton)


Figs (Volume Fieldiana, Popular Series, Botany, no. 1) - Dahlgren, B. E. (Bror Eric), 1877-1961

Figs from California - Lyman, William Whittingham, b. 1885


Crops that pay : pecans, figs, mangoes, avocados, kumquats - Dygert, Henry Arthur, 1856-

Benson's guide to fig culture in the open ground at the North - Martin Benson

Citrus Fruits

The Culture of Citrus Fruits under the climatic and geographical conditions pertaining to the Murray Valley - Arndt, Franz Rudolf, 1878-
 

Grapes

The handbook of Horticulture and Viticulture of Western Australia - Despeissis, A

Nuts

English Walnuts: What You Need to Know about Planting, Cultivating and Harvesting This Most Delicious of Nuts

Growing Nuts in the North:  Weschcke, Carl, 1894-1973


Filbert growing in the Puget Sound country- Quarnberg, Andrew Anderson, 1849-

Spanish Almonds and Their Introduction Into America - David Fairchild

Nuts and their uses as food - Jaffa, Myer E. (Myer Edward), 1857-1931

Nuts and their uses as food - Rich, Jessie Pinning

Nuts for profit: A treatise on the propagation and cultivation of nut ... - John R. Parry

Crops that pay : pecans, figs, mangoes, avocados, kumquats - Dygert, Henry Arthur, 1856-

Illustrated catalogue and price-list of grafted, budded and choice seedling paper-shell pecans and other nut-bearing trees; - [White, Herbert Charles] 1869- [from old catalog]

Paper shell pecans - [Keystone pecan company, Manheim, Pa.] [from old catalog]


Some of the causes of decay of Brazil nuts - Spencer, Edwin Rollin, 1881- [from old catalog]

Chestnut culture in the northeastern United States - Sterling, Ernest Albert, 1878-

Berries

Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits - Card, Fred Wallace, 1863-

[Fruit culture] (Volume v.1) - International Library of Technology

[Fruit culture] (Volume v.2) - International Library of Technology

Raspberry, currant and strawberry - Wilkins, Raymond Harvey

Strawberry culture - Corregan, Frank Gerow

Strawberry culture - Crawford, Matthew

Instructions in strawberry culture - Durand, E. W. [from old catalog]

Strawberry-growing - Fletcher, S. W. (Stevenson Whitcomb), b. 1875


Modern strawberry growing - Wilkinson, Albert Edmund, 1879-

Strawberry-growing - Fletcher, Stevenson Whitcomb, 1875-

Cider, Perry & Wine

The American orchardist  - Thacher, James, 1754-1844

A Study of Cider Making - William B. Alwood

A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear: And on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry - Thomas Andrew Knight


Easy to make wine; with additional recipes for cocktails, cider, beer, fruit syrups and herb teas - Gennery-Taylor, Mrs

A study of cider making in France, Germany, and England- Alwood, William Bradford "Works of reference": p. 113-114

A view of the cultivation of fruit trees, and the management of orchards and cider - Coxe, William, 1762-1831

Making muscadine table wine - Carroll, Daniel E

American manual of the grape vines and the art of making wine - Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840

Landscaping
The Art and Craft of Garden Making, by T H Mawson (1861-1933)

Website design sponsored by
 
Leaves of Gold Press
© Heritage Fruits Society
Powered by Wild Apricot Membership Software