Product Description: Genetic Improvement of Crops was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions...read more

Product Description: Genetic Improvement of Crops was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions...read more

Product Description: The General Introduction.This compendium presents standardized information on approximately 150 edible horticultural crops. It has been designed principally to help with the task of fitting crops to land, but it can also be used for a variety of other purposes...read more

Product Description: The use of aromatic plants has been practised since ancient times as is evidenced by records of Chinese, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek and Roman origin; recent findings in Pakistan prove that it goes as far back as 5000 years. Accordingly, the importance and value ascribed to them were always high...read more

Discusses the fundamentals of the prediction of weather, surveys the various types of climates across the country, and explains how to cope with the effects of weather on a garden

Product Description: Methods of producing the cultivated mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, have advanced dramatically over the past decade, and for the most part improvements in technology have been generated by fundamental advances in our understanding of the basic biology of the crop...read more

Product Description: Compiled by two distinguished professors of horticulture, The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation is a must for professionals and students of horticulture. Over 1,100 species and their propagation requirements by seeds, cuttings, grafting and budding, and tissue culture are discussed in exhaustive detail...read more

For the first time, Christmas tree growers can turn to a factual, comprehensive and readable reference book that covers all aspects of using fertilizers in the plantation. The purpose of the book is to help growers understand the principles of fertilization and apply this knowledge to growing healthier, higher quality trees in less time and with less pollution.

Product Description: This volume considers ornamental bulbs, including the related storage organs of corms and tubers. An immense amount of research literature has been distilled, such that general principles are stressed throughout, but common examples are considered in some detail.

Bounty hunter and blood brother of the Apache, Sam Slater must round up the murderers of Doc Presnell, the doc's pretty wife, and a gentle native American girl. Original.

Product Description: Plants provide a remarkable diversity of useful products such as food, medicines, spices, pesticides, fragrances, and stimulants. For many of these products or their synthetic successors, agriculture and phytochemistry have been critical to their development...read more

Product Description: This is the ultimate guide to managing landscape pests! With this manual in hand you will be able to diagnose and manage hundreds of insect, mite, weed, plant disease, and nematode pests. Inside you'll find updated information on how to use environmentally safe, ecologically based IPM methods; landscape designs that prevent pests; how to select resistant varieties; advice on the use of less-toxic pesticides such as botanicals, oils, and soaps; and tips on planting, irrigating, and other plant-care cultural activities that help in avoiding problems...read more

Product Description: Historical Perspectives is a compilation of the 1991 lectures presented for the series and provides a fresh looka t plant science via anecdotes and personal knowledge.

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