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Peaches - Rare and Heritage Fruit Cultivars #8 (Paperback)
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Peaches - Rare and Heritage Fruit Cultivars #8 (Paperback)
Series: Rare & Heritage Fruit Cultivars, 8
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List price R642
Loot Price R525
Discovery Miles 5 250
You Save R117 (18%)
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PEACHES (Rare and Heritage Fruit Cultivars #8)
Of all the deciduous tree fruit varieties, the peach is ranked
third in global economic importance after the apple and the pear.
This handbook lists and describes around 230 existing and 'lost'
heritage peach cultivars, to help you choose those you would prefer
to grow. It gives fascinating insights into the world of peaches,
and some surprising facts about this delicious queen of fruits
including, for each variety, the history, visual description,
flavour, flesh characteristics, skin colour, type of pit or stone,
chill and pollination requirements, and uses. An indispensable
handbook for the peach enthusiast.
This book is one of a series written for 'backyard farmers' of the
21st century. It focuses on rare and heritage fruit in Australia,
although it includes much information of interest to fruit
enthusiasts around the world.
'Heritage' or 'heirloom' fruits such as old-fashioned varieties of
apple, quince, fig, plum, peach and pear are increasingly popular
due to their diverse flavours, excellent nutritional qualities and
other desirable characteristics. They are the legacy of our
ancestors; living heirlooms, part of humanity's horticultural,
vintage and culinary inheritance. During the 18th, 19th and early
20th centuries fruit diversity was huge, but in modern supermarkets
only a limited range of commercial fruit varieties is available to
consumers.
To pick a tree-ripened heritage fruit from your own back yard and
bite into it is to experience the taste of fresh food as our
forefathers knew it.
Heritage, heirloom and rare fruit enthusiasts across the world are
now reviving our horticultural legacy by renovating old orchards
and identifying 'lost', unusual and historic fruit varieties. The
goal is to make a wide range of unique fruit trees available again
to the home gardener.
This series of handbooks aims to help.
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