Directions for raising nurseries, planting orchards

Directions for raising nurseries, planting orchards

Cider industry > 18th century

Fruit-culture

Nurseries (Horticulture)

Plant propagation

This volume includes instructions and advice regarding cultivating plants and planting orchards, derived from written sources, word of mouth, and personal experience. Topics include grafting, choosing fruit for cider, gathering and sweating the fruit, pressing the fruit, managing cider during fermentation, procuring casks for the cider, correcting cider's irregularities, and making vinegar and liquor from the cider. A service photocopy is available.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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