The Fruit Culture in Japan (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Tomochika Ikeda
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656894253
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Excerpt from The Fruit Culture in Japan For a long period in ancient times there was no com munication between Japan and foreign countries, and even for a long time after the end of the Tokugawa era there was no importation of the fine fruit of Europe and America, and consequently the Japanese lack of knowledge of foreign fruits and plants. Had it been otherwise, there is no doubt that the cultivation of foreign fruit in Japan would have made more progress than it has done. Due to the great variety of latitude and altitude previously mentioned, foreign fruits planted in Japan have done fairly well, and annual crops, good both in quantity and quality, have been gathered; and this notwithstanding the fact that the growers give but scant attention to the trees and rest satisfied so long as the yield is good, neither manuring nor pruning, and the majority of fruit trees in Japan are treated in this way to the present day. The persimmon is treated in like manner, with the exception that its branches are occacionally thinned out. Orange trees have received some attention in the matter of manuring, as have also chesnut trees, but these are neither pruned nor trained; but Japanese have been taught by experience that pear-trees and grape-vines will not bear good crops of fruit without pruning and training and consequently they have fallen into these methods as a matter of necessity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.