Title

Florida fruits and how to raise them.

Author

Harcourt, Helen, 1846-

Files

Alternative Title

Florida fruits: how to raise them.

Alternative Title

Harcourt's Florida Fruits and how to raise them.

Description

Horticultural handbook geared to the novice, for growing citrus as well as other types of fruits in Florida.

Table of Contents

Ch. I. Rise and progress of orange culture -- Ch. II. The value of orange groves -- Ch. III. From seed to grove -- Ch. IV. How to bud and graft -- Ch. V. Where to plant -- Ch. VI. Budded trees or seedlings? -- Ch. VII. How to plant -- Ch. VIII. -- How to cultivate -- Ch. IX. Mulching and pruning --Ch. X. How to fertilize -- Ch. XI. Enemies and how to fight them -- Ch. XII. The rust mite -- Ch. XIII. Gathering and packing -- Ch. XIV. About varieties --Ch. XV. Miscellaneous -- Ch. XVI. Lemon culture -- Ch. XVII. Other citrus fruits -- Ch. XVIII. Pine-apples -- Ch. XIX. Guavas and bananas -- Ch. XX. The small fruits -- Ch. XXI. -- Olives and pecans -- Ch. XXII. Cocoa-nuts -- Ch. XXIII. Other tropical fruits -- Ch. XXIV. Grapes -- Ch. XXV. Chinese sand pears -- Ch. XXVI. Figs -- Ch. XXVII. Peaches and plums -- Ch. XXVIII. Japanese persimmon, or date plum -- Ch. XXIX. Evaporating fruits -- Ch. XXX. Odds and ends -- Ch. XXXI. How to use Florida fruits.

Notes

Includes index. Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : Florida Board of Education, Division of Colleges and Universities, PALMM Project, 2002. (Florida heritage collection) Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software; Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files. Electronically digitized by the University of Central Florida from a book held in the Main Library at the University of Central Florida, Orlando.

Subject

Fruit-culture -- Florida; Oranges -- Florida; Agriculture; Economics and Society: Post-Civil War Florida, 1865-1913 -- Business, Agriculture, and Tourism, 1878-1897

City

Louisville, KY

Publisher

John P. Morton and Company

Extent

347 pages ; 20 cm.

Format

application/pdf

Digital Reproduction Specifications

Jpeg2000 images were derived from no less than 400 dpi tiff images

Identifier

50189474 (oclc), CF00001578 (IID), ucf:9791 (fedora)

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Collection

UCF Florida Heritage Collection

Recommended Citation

Harcourt, Helen, 1846-, "Florida fruits and how to raise them." (1886). Florida Heritage. 34.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/floridaheritage/34