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S010 75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden
 By Jack Staub, 224 pages, Hardcover
A great gift for the fruit lover. In elegant prose and beautiful hand done color illustration, the author gives history and lore as well as recipes and growing tips. Included are many of the plants in the Raintree catalog from Hardy Chicago and Petite Negri Figs to Wolfberries. full description
Raintree Low Price: $19.95
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S155 A Guide to Nut Culture
 By Northern Nut Growers Assoc., hardcover
400 pages. The first of two volumes. Chapters on history, propagation, rootstocks, site selection, pollination, processing, timber etc. Includes Pecans, Hickories, Hazels, Chestnuts, Pines, Ginkgos, Oaks, Beeches and more from 18 experts. full description
Raintree Low Price: $49.95
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S080 AHS Plant Propagation
 by Alan Toogood. 320 pages. A step by step illustrated guide to this intriguing subject. Learn from the experts how to graft, bud, make hardwood or softwood cuttings, stool beds and other techniques. Learn to start your own plants from seed or just better appreciate how nurseries propagate plants. Included is a listing of thousands of plants, including those in our catalog and specific instructions for propagating each one. full description
Raintree Low Price: $34.95
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S344 Alternative Fruit Crops for Western Washington
 WSU Bulletin EB2002 by Gary Moulton and Jacky King, 18 pages
Learn which fruit crops are good for maritime small commercial growers and home gardeners. Covered are marketing and, cultural practices for wine grapes, hardy kiwis, cider apples, stone fruits, berries and unusual fruits. full description
Raintree Low Price: $3.00
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S007 Apple Cookbook
 by Olwen Woodier; 187 pages
Enjoy 140 delicious recipes including beverages, breakfasts, soups, salads, entrees, breads, pies and muffins. Understandably explains how to preserve; including canning, freezing, drying and making sauces and jams. Makes a great gift. full description
Raintree Low Price: $10.95
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S024 Bamboo For Gardens
 By Ted Jordan Meredith; 406 pages, hardcover
If you are planning to include bamboo in your garden, this book will be your lifelong guide.
The author, a Washingtonian, uses many beautiful photographs and a a gift for interesting prose to explain all about using bamboo in your garden landscape. Learn much about the many varieties including techniques for growing, controling, thinning, eating, harvesting and propagating bamboo. full description
Raintree Low Price: $39.95
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S009 Bananas You Can Grow
 By Stokes, 128 pages
For Northern and Southern home gardeners. Includes sections on cultivation, propagation, best cultivars for each site and growing in greenhouses and containers. Well written with color illustrations. full description
Raintree Low Price: $19.95
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S042 Berries
 By Roger Yepson, 160 pages, hardcover
Roger Yepson loves to grow, forage for and cook with berries, including many unusuals offered by Raintree. He shares his love and knowledge in a profound and delightful way. His color illustrations are a joy. Recipes galore! full description
Raintree Low Price: $24.95
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S040 Berries, Rasp & Black
 by Louise Riotte, 31 pages.
This Storey booklet shows the backyard gardener how to plant, care for and trellis rasp and blackberries. In all the Story booklets, which were published in 1979, the info on selecting varieties is out of date but the other information is very useful. full description
Raintree Low Price: $3.95
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S045 Berry Growers Companion (paperback)
 by Barbara Bowling. 308 pages.
The most comprehensive berry book we have seen. The expert author extensively explains cultivar selection, diseases, soils, pruning and using berries in your landscape. It even includes grapes, currants, gooseberries and minor fruits. Beautiful photos and illustrations. A must for the serious home berry grower's library. full description
Raintree Low Price: $19.95
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S186 Bountiful Container
 By Rose Marie Nichols McGee & Maggie Stucky, 432 pages.
Subtitled "Create container gardens of vegetables, herbs, fruits and edible flowers", the authors explain choosing the proper pot, planting, fertilizing, disease control, pollination and appropriate cultivars. full description
Raintree Low Price: $17.95
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S050 Budding & Grafting Fruit Trees
 A reprint from the University of California, 8 pages.Closeup photos and text on how to bud and graft fruit trees. full description
Raintree Low Price: $2.95
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S027 Chestnut Cookbook
 By Annie Bhagwandin, 128 pages
The Aurthor has been growing, harvesting and preparing chestnuts for 20 years. The book includes recipes from around the world and interesting folklore. The book has just been revised and reprinted. full description
Raintree Low Price: $12.95
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S340 Cider, Using & Enjoying - Sweet and Hard
 by Proulx & Nichols, 188 pages
It covers all aspects of making cider. Ciders are as diverse as wines and
this book explains how to make many of the different types. These include ‘English farmhouse ciders’, ‘French sparkling ciders’ and ‘American style ciders’. The instructions and charts are clear and easy to use. For inspiration, there are interviews with master cider makers the world over. A good book or a neighbor with a full cellar are prerequisites to learning
the hobby. full description
Raintree Low Price: $14.95
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S490 Designing & Maintaining Your Edible Landscape
 by Robert Kourik, 370 pages
Robert has brought together the best information on backyard fruit and vegetable growing from througout the world. This is a step by step guide to selecting, planting, pruning, grafting and caring for hundreds of the best edible landscaping plants. The book includes more useful information than we, in our research, had seen in one place. We borrowed much from his book in writing our catalog and there are ten times that number of gems we didn't have room for. If you find the charts and information in our catalog usef full description
Raintree Low Price: $49.95
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S110 Drip Irrigation
 by Robert Kourik, 118 pages. The survival rate of fruit trees goes up if they are adequately watered. Even in the Pacific Northwest, fruit trees need summer watering to get well established. The way to get the most benefit from the least amount of water is through drip irrigation. He tells you a lot more than you need to know but his humorous style makes even a subject like plumbing read like a good novel. full description
Raintree Low Price: $15.00
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S150 From Vines to Wines
 by Jeff Cox, 253 pages. The book is subtitled, "A Complete Guide to Growing Grapes & Making Your Own Wine". The author helps you select the best varieties for your climate. Using 90 "how to" drawings, he explains how to plant, trellis, prune, control pests and make fine wine. full description
Raintree Low Price: $18.95
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S347 Fruit Handbook for Western Washington
 By G. A. Moulton and J. King 40 pages full color. WSU Bulletin EB0937
Like a much expanded Raintree catalog, it discusses tree, vine and unusual fruit cultivars and rootstocks. Cultural factors such as site selection, soils, pollination, pest identification and harvest are included, with reference to publications that cover topics in more detail. It provides bloom charts for apples, pears, plums and cherries, and a month by month orchard calendar. full description
Raintree Low Price: $6.00
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S140 Fruits & Berries for Home Garden
 by Lewis Hill, 288 pages. Master gardener and Raintree customer Lewis Hill shares his knowledge of backyard fruit growing accumulated over 45 years. In addition to new varietal recommendations, Hill shows home gardeners how to select,
plant, prune, trellis and care for each type of fruit tree and berry bush. He includes up-to-date pest control and fertilization information including a lot on organic methods. full description
Raintree Low Price: $16.95
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S175 Fruits & Nuts
 By Susanna Lyle, 480 pages, hardcover
Incredibly useful amd interesting comprhensive guide to the cultivation, uses and health benifits of 300 food plants. Learn alot more about all the edible plants in our catalog. Great color photos and instructive diagrams. A must for a fruit enthusiast. full description
Raintree Low Price: $59.95
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S090 Gardening with Ed Hume
 By Ed Hume; 400 pages. For half a century Ed Hume has gardened in the Northwest and gained a following of legions of gardeners with his down to earth advice on Seattle radio and television. Raintree is proud to have helped Ed with his chapter on Northwest home fruit growing. There are also excellent chapters on all aspects of Northwest gardening including vegetable, hedges, flowers, pest control and more. full description
Raintree Low Price: $24.95
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S180 Great Grapes
 by Anne Proulx, 32 pages
Learn how to plant, trellis, care for and harvest grapes in your backyard. A Garden Way booklet. full description
Raintree Low Price: $3.95
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S064 Growing Citrus
 By Martin Page, 192 pages hardcover
From England, this book focuses on growing all types of citrus indoors in containers. Learn about soils, watering, fertilization and pest control. Enjoy the many color photos. full description
Raintree Low Price: $34.95
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S240 Growing Kiwi Fruit
 20 pages, Oregon State University
Covers all aspects of kiwi growing, pruning, trellising, harvest and storage. Includes all types of kiwis including fuzzy and hardy kiwis. Great home or commerical growers guide. full description
Raintree Low Price: $4.50
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S182 Growing Wine Grapes in Maritime Western Washington
 By G.A. Moulton and J. King, 24 pages, full color
For professional or very serious amateur. This guide includes detailed information on varieties, site selection, rootstocks, trellis structure, vine training and disease control. A colorful calendar lists grape-growing tasks by month throughout the year. WSU Bulletin EB2001. full description
Raintree Low Price: $4.00
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S205 Grow the Best Asparagus
 Storey Books, 12 pages. Learn to grow Asparagus in your garden. full description
Raintree Low Price: $3.95
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S095 Grow the Best Blueberries
 Story Books, 32 pages, by V. Shutak and R. Gough. Learn to grow, prune and propagate blueberries in this backyard gardeners “how to” booklet. full description
Raintree Low Price: $3.95
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S200 Grow the Best Strawberries
 by Louise Riotte, 31 pages. Learn when, how and where to plant and care
for your strawberry plants from this Garden
Way booklet. full description
Raintree Low Price: $3.95
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S326 Landscaping with Fruit-Lee Reich
 By Lee Reich, 192 pages
Using beautiful color photos and understandable diagrams, Reich clearly explains what to grow, how to grow it and how to make your landscape both beautiful and bountiful. full description
Raintree Low Price: $19.95
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S031 Modern Apple Poster
 Beautiful color 24 x 36" color posters ready for framing. Each is a delight for the fruit enthusiast! full description
Raintree Low Price: $16.00
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S067 Month By Month Gardening in W. Washington & Oregon
 by Robson and Pfeiffer, 300 pages, full color
A month by month guide to sucessful gardening of ornamentals. Everything is included; planning, planting, pruning, watering and pest control. full description
Raintree Low Price: $24.99
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S149 Natural Winemaking At Home
 By Anine Grumbles, 147 pages
For years the author has advised home winemakers about making wines without sulfites. She has recipes for wines from many fruits and she outlines all the ingredients and equipment a home winemaker will need. full description
Raintree Low Price: $19.95
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S426 Pollination with Mason Bees
 By Margriet Dogterom 80 pages
A Gardener and Naturalists' Guide to Managing Mason Bees for Fruit Production
This book is suitable for gardeners, naturalists and biologists who want to learn more about mason bees & other wild solitary bees.
This book will:
* Provide a step-by-step guide to looking after mason bees.
* Help you choose the nest type most suitable for your garden.
* Help to interpret the bee's behavior at the nest. full description
Raintree Low Price: $10.95
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S329 Pomegranate Roads
 By Gregory Levin, Floreant Press, 183 pages
Subtitled, “A Soviet Botanist’s Exile from Eden”, A beguiling blend of memoir and pomegranate horticulture. Dr Levin tells of his life’s work in a remote Soviet research station in the mountains near Iran. full description
Raintree Low Price: $18.00
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S075 Preserving Memories
 By Judy Glattstein, 219 pages
Includes 100 recipes for jams and jellies using most the the usual and unique fruits in the Raintree catalog. The author teaches at the New York Botanical Garden. She folds in wonderful reminiscenses to make this recipe book a great gift or a guidebook for how to cook with the catalog’s unique fruits. full description
Raintree Low Price: $18.95
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S170 RHS Growing Fruit-by Harry Baker
 By Harry Baker, 189 pages. Royal Horticultural Society’s retired fruit officer illustrates the best English techniques for fruit growing, many unknown to most American gardeners. The book has great drawings that clearly show you how to prune, train (including espalier) and propagate all kinds of fruit trees and berries. A practical, take out into your orchard and berry patch, book with a month by month calendar, chapters on fruit storage, growing in containers, site preparation, soils and pests. full description
Raintree Low Price: $24.50
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S225 Roots Demystified
 by Robert Kourik, 165 pages
Robert explains through extensive illustrations how the roots of plants including fruit trees, berry bushes, vegeatables and ornamentals grow and offers a wealth of practical planting and plant care instructions the home gardener can understand and use. It's fun reading, "after the first years growth an apple tree can produce 17,000,000 root hairs with a total length of over a mile". full description
Raintree Low Price: $25.00
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S105 Simply Quince
 By Barbara Ghazarian, 216 pages
A great holiday gift book for the fruit lover. Read about the culture and history of the Quince. The recipes allow readers to become Quince culinary masters. full description
Raintree Low Price: $21.95
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S430 Small Fruits in the Home Garden
 By Dr. Robert Gough, 272 pages.
Home fruit growers will learn everything they need to know about growing berries and grapes including varieties for each region, soils, lanscaping, pruning and nutrional information. The professor includes vital information about ecologically sound pest control methods. full description
Raintree Low Price: $27.95
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S220 Teaming with Microbes
 By Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis, 196 pages.
Subtitled "A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web", 74 color images, are used to take readers on a "Fantastic Voyage", exploring the microscopic world of the soil. It is then explained how to apply this knowledge to have healthy living soil in your garden. Put compost teas and predatory nematodes to work for you. full description
Raintree Low Price: $19.95
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S005 The Apple Grower
 by Michael Phillips, 242 pages
Subtitled A guide for the Organic Orchardist, Phillips speaks to the larger backyard grower and commercial orchardist with years of knowledge and a reverence for nature. From planning the orchard and choosing cultivars and rootstocks to siting, planting, soils, mulches, pollination, pest control, harvesting and marketing solutions. full description
Raintree Low Price: $39.95
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S041 The Backyard Berry Book
 by Stella Otto, 284 pages. Using easy to understand language and illustrations, Otto runs the backyard gardener through the basics of growing strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, grapes, kiwis, currant and gooseberries, lingonberries and rhubarb. Included is the needed information on pest control, propagation, pruning and other cultural practices. full description
Raintree Low Price: $16.95
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S043 The Backyard Orchardist
 by Stella Otto, 235 pages.
Otto explains in easy to understand language how to grow many kinds of tree fruits. Included are sections on pruning, fertilization, thinning, harvest and storage, pest identification and control and growing fruit in containers. full description
Raintree Low Price: $15.95
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S070 The Botany of Desire
 By Michael Pollan 271 pgs.
A brilliantly written, fascinating look at the history of four crops including the Apple and its use for making hard cider. It includes great insight into John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed.
Pollan explores the socio-political, economic and historical forces that led to the cultivation of tulips, potatoes, marijuana and apples. Its a spell binding read for any one interested in plants. Pollan explains how plants have evolved to satisfy humankinds most basic yearnings and how humans and plants have a symbiotic relati full description
Raintree Low Price: $13.95
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S350 The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello
 By Peter Hatch 222 pages.
Illustrated both with old drawings and photographsthis book has an astonishing amount of historical and horticultural detail. You can almost taste Thomas Jefferson’s 170 varieties of apple, quince, peach, cherry. nuts, berries, grapes figs and more. His genius and love of fruit shines through. full description
Raintree Low Price: $30.00
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S185 The Grape Grower
 By Lon Rombough,304 pages,subtitled,"A Guide to Organic Viticulture". Everything you need to know including planting,training,porpagating,pest control,folklore and choosing the best varieties for each climate,from a long time expert! full description
Raintree Low Price: $35.00
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S160 The Hazel Tree
 By Cecil Farris, 74 pages
Hazel enthusiasts will love the 27 color photos and information on tree culture, pests, diseases, breeding and establishing backyard orchards. full description
Raintree Low Price: $16.50
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S141 The Home Orchard
 By C. Ingels , 202 pages,
A new comprehensive book for the home fruit and nut orchardist with special emphasis on organic and non toxic pest management and fertilization methods. Learn about irrigation, pruning, grafting, thinning, harvesting and all you need to suceed. Includes many instructive diagrams and photos. full description
Raintree Low Price: $25.00
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S327 The Pruning Book
 By Lee Reich, 234 pages.
The noted edible plant horticulturist and garden writer has taken the mystery out of pruning. Through clear color pictures and text, the beginning gardener will learn how to choose the right tools and make the right cuts. It covers, fruits, nuts, berries, conifers, broadleafs and all the fun techniques like bonsai, pleaching and many types of espalier. full description
Raintree Low Price: $19.95
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S335 Training & Pruning Home Orchards
 Pacific Northwest Extension, 14 pages. Dr. Robert Stebbins uses clear diagrams to show you how to prune your backyard fruit trees. full description
Raintree Low Price: $3.00
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S346 Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
 292 pages, Lee Reich's prized book has been revised and expanded and will be available for shipment in May. Order it now, or if you can't wait to receive it, order the CD version. The book included information,photos,drawings and detailed information on most of the unusual fruits offered in the Raintree catalog. A great gift for the serious grower. full description
Raintree Low Price: $24.95
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S066 Washington & Oregon Gardening Guide
 by Mary Robson and Debra Prinzing, 272 pages, full color
Each page tells you where to plant and how to choose and grow the best ornamental trees, shrubs, groundcovers and vines. The authors are tops in both gardening knowledge and writing ability. full description
Raintree Low Price: $24.99
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If books are are ordered alone, we will adjust shipping charges as follows: for books over $10 there will be a $5.00 shipping charge and for books under $10 there will be a $2.00 shipping charge. Books are shipped all year. We offer a collection of books that are very useful to the backyard fruit grower. Look at our outstanding collection of gardening books from England. These books have lots of information and techniques common in England but unknown to American gardeners.
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