Apple Growing

The author presents a practical handbook for the small northeastern orchard, drawing on farm experience and horticultural instruction to offer actionable guidance. Topics range from the economic outlook and orchard planning to planting techniques, pruning, cultivation, cover cropping, manuring, pest and disease identification, and spraying practices. Additional chapters address harvesting, storing, marketing, renovating aging orchards, and estimating costs. Emphasis remains on clear, experience-based procedures—such as spacing and layout choices—and on methods that a typical farm owner can adopt to improve yield, fruit quality, and the profitability of the fruit department.