Welcome to my ‘Pomolibrary’. The books listed on this page are all on the subject of top-fruit, soft-fruit, orchard management, cider- and perry-making, the social, economic and landscape history of orchards and orcharding, or cooking with, eating and enjoying the fruit harvest.
Research (and acquisition) is always ongoing, so if you’re aware of any books that really ought to be added to my Pomolibrary, or open source texts that aren’t already listed on the spreadsheet, or a relevant online archive that I might like to take a look at, please do drop me a line and let me know. Likewise, if you have a collection of fruit-related books that you’re interesting in selling, please get in touch and let me know the details – a list of the titles available would be ideal, if you have the time to put one together – and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can to let you know if I’m interested in buying.
The list below is of the print books in my own collection, but in the course of various research projects I’ve also found hundreds of copyright-free historical texts that are available online. The full list of everything I’ve come across to-date can be accessed (read-only) via this Google Docs spreadsheet.
Please note: I’m in the process of adding more detailed info, cover images etc. for currently-available titles. Please bear with me as I gradually work my way down the list.
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2026 – A Vagrant’s Pomona
James Ferguson
An examination of the potential for wild & unloved fruit, removed from { private } premises, to furnish a most excellent cider and restore the faculties of those dispossessed of access to commons.
Publisher: James Ferguson
2025 – Fruit Tree Grafting for Everyone, 2nd edition
Susan Poizner with Steph Muma
In this book, award-winning fruit tree care educator Susan Poizner teams up with Steph Muma of Silver Creek Nursery to walk you through the entire grafting process. You’ll learn when to collect scionwood, how to match your grafts, and how to care for them so they heal strong and grow into productive trees.
Publisher: OrchardPeople.com
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2025 – Growing Fruit
Chris Whitelock
Written for gardeners of all skill levels, this book highlights the best varieties of both top and soft fruit for growing at home or in a community garden or allotment. Drawing on over 50 years of horticultural experience, Chris Whitelock delivers straightforward, practical guidance based on modern gardening techniques.
Publisher: Crowood Press
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
Read my Book Notes review
2025 – The Story of the Herefordshire Pomona
Bill Laws
The Herefordshire Pomona is a remarkable book. Launched in the late nineteenth century as no more than a collection of ‘coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of Apples and Pears,’ it is widely considered a landmark in British publishing. Richly illustrated with photographs, manuscripts and plates, this book reveals the story behind this incredible project and celebrates the rich diversity of Herefordshire’s orchards.
Publisher: Logaston Press
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
Read my Book Notes review
2024 – Perry, A Drinker’s Guide
Adam Wells
For the first time ever the full international story of perry – the drinks world’s best kept secret – is told in CAMRA’s groundbreaking book, Perry: A Drinker’s Guide. The book will help drinkers navigate the styles, flavours, varieties, countries, regions and producers behind this ancient and fascinating drink.
Publisher: CAMRA Books
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2024 – The Apple: A Delicious History
Sally Coulthard
The Apple: A Delicious History takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, from the apple’s prehistoric beginnings in the Tian Shan mountains of Kazakhstan to the explosion of commercial apple-growing in twenty-first-century China. Zigzagging across the centuries and straddling the globe, Sally Coulthard explores how the apple travelled along the Silk Road from Central Asia to Europe.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Books
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2024 – The Erddig Apple Book 2024
Wilf Davies
A photographic catalogue of the dozens of heritage apple varieties grown at National Trust Erddig in the 2024 growing season.
Available From: National Trust Erddig
2023 – Apples and Orchards Since the Eighteenth Century: Material Innovation and Cultural Tradition
Joanna Crosby
Showing how the history of the apple goes far beyond the orchard and into the social, cultural and technological developments of Britain and the USA, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the importance of the apple as a symbol of both tradition and innovation.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Books
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
Read my Book Notes review
2023 – Medlars, Growing and Cooking
Jane Steward
At Eastgate in rural North Norfolk, Jane Steward is reviving the medlar, an old English fruit which was once Britain’s sweet treat. Her trees are alive with colour for much of the year: white and yellow flowers in the summer, green leaves that turn to gold and russet…
Publisher: Prospect Books
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2022 – English Orchards: A Landscape History
Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson
This book attempts, for the first time, to provide a comprehensive review of the development of orchards in England from the Middle Ages to the present day. It describes the various different kinds of orchard and explains how, and when, they appeared in the landscape…
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
Read my Book Notes review
2022 – The Lost Orchards
Liz Copas, with Nick Poole
In 2007 the pomologist Liz Copas and cidermaker Nick Poole began a quest to find and identify old varieties of cider apple trees around Dorset. The search lasted more than a decade, taking them across the county, searching in forgotten orchards, hedgerows and the corners of gardens…
Publisher: Little Toller Books
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2022 – The Commonplace Book of John Gwin of Llangwm
ed. Madeleine Gray, Tony Hopkins and Alan Withey
John Gwin’s commonplace book is a treasure trove of medical remedies, snippets of local and family history, notes on the management of the Worcester estates, advice on the choice of marriage partners, and tips on good husbandry and orchard management.
Buy Online: South Wales Record Society
Read my Book Notes review
2022 – The Neighbouring Orchard
Annie Lord
Fusing original drawings, interviews with growers, archive maps and photography by Edinburgh photographer Ellie J McMaster, the book tells the story of the creation of The Neighbouring Orchard public artwork as it takes root and becomes a vibrant network of trees, people, communities & wildlife.
Publisher: Art Walk Projects
2022 – Melons and Other Cucurbits
Richard Brown
Experienced gardener, Richard Brown, a horticultural teacher in the North of England, at Wakefield College in Yorkshire. Richard shows the aspirant gardener all they need about the propagation, technique, germination, compost and growing conditions for melons, squash, pumpkins and cucumbers.
Publisher: Prospect Books
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2021 – Taming Fruit: How Orchards Have Transformed the Land, Offered Sanctuary, and Inspired Creativity
Bernd Brunner
In Taming Fruit, award-winning writer Bernd Brunner interweaves evocative illustrations with masterful prose to show that the story of orchards is a story of how we have shaped nature to our desires for millennia.
Publisher: Greystone Books
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
Read my Book Notes review
2021 – The Book of Difficult Fruit
Kate Lebo
In this work of unique invention, various difficult fruits serve as the central ingredients of twenty-six lyrical essays (and recipes!) that range from deeply personal to botanical, from culinary to medical, from humorous to philosophical.
Publisher: Picador
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2021 – The New Sylva; A Discourse of Forest and Orchard Trees for the Twenty-First Century (3rd ed.)
Gabriel Hemery and Sarah Simblet
Silvologist Gabriel Hemery explains what trees really mean to us culturally, environmentally and economically in the first part of the book. These chapters are followed by forty-four detailed tree portrait sections that describe the history and the features of trees such as oak, elm, beech, hornbeam, willow, fir, pine, juniper, plane, apple and pear.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Books
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2021 – The Orchard Book
Wade Muggleton
Wade Muggleton has distilled 20 years of orchard know-how into this practical handbook to help you plan, plant and manage your orchard, whatever your garden size or budget. With his expert guidance you can have an orchard on any plot – garden, yard, allotment or smallholding.
Publisher: Chelsea Green
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
Read my Book Notes review
2021 – The Orchards of Eastern England: History, Ecology and Place
Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson
Although the history of orchards and fruit varieties is of great popular interest, there have been few academic treatments of the subject. This book presents results from a three-year project, ‘Orchards East’, investigating the history and ecology of orchards in the east of England.
Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press
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2020 – Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden
Benedict Macdonald, Nicholas Gates
England’s ancient orchards, collaborations between people and nature, are sources of hope for the future. Protecting them promises a far richer England for the centuries to come, for wildlife and for us.
Publisher: William Collins Books
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2020 – Orchard Recipes from Eastern England
Monica Askay and Tom Williamson
This short book not only looks at the history of orchards in eastern England, and of the fruit grown within them, but is also a recipe book, providing examples of how different kinds of fruit typical of the eastern counties, varieties of apple, pear, plum and cherry, can be used and eaten.
Publisher: Bridge Publishing
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2019 – Apple: Recipes From the Orchard
James Rich
Author James Rich hails from apple country in Somerset, England, where his family own a cider farm. Apples, it could be said, are in his blood, this is a collection of over 90 of his best-loved recipes.
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2019 – Fruit From the Sands – The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat
Robert N. Spengler III
The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. From almonds and apples to tea and rice, many foods that we consume today have histories that can be traced out of prehistoric Central Asia along the tracks of the Silk Road to kitchens in Europe, America, China, and elsewhere in East Asia.
Publisher: University of California Press
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2019 – Heritage Apples
Caroline Ball
In the course of the past century we have lost much of our rich heritage of orchard fruits, but with taste once again triumphing over shelf-life and a renewed interest in local varieties, we are rediscovering the delights of that most delicious and adaptable fruit: the apple.
Publisher: Bodleian Library Publishing
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2019 – The Extraordinary Story of the Apple
Barrie E. Juniper and David J. Mabberley
This book details the natural and cultural history of the apple, using DNA evidence, from its origins in China, along the Silk Road to Europe and onto the Americas and Australia.
Publisher: Kew Publishing
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2019 – The Language of Fruit: Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Liz Bellamy
Liz Bellamy explores how poets, playwrights, and novelists from the Restoration to the Romantic era represented fruit and fruit trees in a period that saw significant changes in cultivation techniques, the expansion of the range of available fruit varieties, and the transformation of the mechanisms for their exchange and distribution.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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2019 – The Lost Orchard
Raymond Blanc
Raymond Blanc has planted an orchard of 2,500 trees in the grounds of his hotel-restaurant in Oxfordshire. Yielding about 30 tonnes of fruit for his kitchen each year, it is full of ancient and forgotten varieties of British apples and pears, along with walnut trees, quince, medlars, apricots, nectarines, peaches, plums, damsons and cherries.
Publisher: Headline
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2019 – Mulberry
Peter Coles
This sumptuously illustrated book tells the remarkable story of the mulberry tree and its migrations from China and Central Asia to almost every continent of the globe. It will appeal to all who wish to know more of the rich history of this emblematic tree.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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2019 – Uncultivated: Wild Apples, Real Cider and the Complicated Art of Making a Living
Andy Brennan
Known for their hardiness, ability to adapt to new environments, natural diversity, and plentiful bounty, wildly grown apples were once known as “America’s fruit” throughout the trading world… In his new book, Brennan’s hero is the tenacious wild apple and the superior cider it produces.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2018 – Apples of Wales
Carwyn Graves
The apple. A familiar, comforting fruit. And a fruit that has a long history in Wales. Apples of Wales tells the untold story of apple growing in Wales, a story that extends from the mists of time into the twentieth century.
Publisher: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2018 – Damsons: An Ancient Fruit in the Modern Kitchen
Sarah Conrad Gothie
Sarah Conrad Gothie offers a history of damson cultivation and use in regions famous for the fruit, as well as practical advice for growing, buying, and storing damsons.
Publisher: Prospect Books
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
Read my Book Notes review
2018 – The Devon Orchards Book
Michael Gee
The expertly written and beautifully illustrated volume … offers a positive vision of the future, with practical suggestions on how lovers of Devon might ensure it remains a county of orchards.
Publisher: Halsgrove
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2018 – The Shadow Orchard
Jim Chapman
In this booklet Jim Chapman explains and explores the Shadow Orchard, its fruits, uses, origins and its conservation significance and needs.
Publisher: Gloucestershire Orchard Trust
2018 – The Original Warden Pear (2nd ed.)
Margaret Roberts
The Original Warden Pear will appeal to those interested in horticulture, the arts, theology, Bedfordshire local history and medieval medicine. Recipes are included, so that readers can recreate the sorts of pear dishes enjoyed by the fifteenth-century nobility, or bake one of the famous Warden Pies.
Publisher: Eventispress
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk | Warden Abbey Community Vineyard webshop
2018 – The Worcester Black Pear
Wade Muggleton
Living or working in Worcestershire it is very hard to escape the image of the pear, it crops up in many places from the County Coat of Arms to the Cricket Club badge. So why are the pear and Worcester so Synonymous with each other and what is its place in history?
Publisher: The Marcher Apple Network
Buy Online: MarcherApple.net
2017 – Growing Urban Orchards
Susan Poizner
Written in Susan’s original voice, this book captures her early journey as a brand-new grower figuring things out from the ground up. It’s friendly, story-based, and packed with the most important lessons she learned along the way.
Publisher: Susan Poizner
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2017 – Nuts – Growing and Cooking
Jane McMorland Hunter and Sally Hughes
Includes over seventy recipes from a spiced pecan and pumpkin salad, Christmas nut loaf to a walnut cake. Also included are storage and handling tips and ways to make your own nut products such as nut milks and nut butters.
Publisher: Prospect Books
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2017 – The Apples and Orchards of Worcestershire
Wade Muggleton
There has seemingly never been a Worcestershire Pomona where all the varieties of the county were recorded together in one place. This book is an attempt to rectify this as well to capture a few of the stories of the apples of a county once so renowned for its orchards.
Publisher: The Marcher Apple Network
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk | MarcherApple.net
2016 – The Apple Orchard: The Story of Our Most English Fruit
Pete Brown
Taking us through the seasons in England’s apple-growing heartlands, this magical book uncovers the stories and folklore of our most familiar fruit. “The vivid brightness of the laden trees, studded with jewels, stirs some deep race memory and makes the heart leap. Here is bounty, and excitement.”
Publisher: Penguin
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2016 – How to Prune an Apple Tree
Chloe Ward
This guide avoids jargon, but explains pruning by illustrating how an apple tree grows and how it responds to being pruned. It covers all aspects of apple tree pruning, from forming the shape of a newly planted tree, to restoring an old tree, the reasons for winter and summer pruning, and what tools to use.
Publisher: Self-Published
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2015 – Apple
Marcia Reiss
This book explores the apple’s history and the latest debates about the use of agrichemicals, the rise of organic and heirloom orchards, and the hopes and fears of genetic crop modification. Beautifully illustrated with historic and contemporary images.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2015 – Apples: a Field Guide
Michael Clark
With the help of this completely revised new edition of the field guide anyone wanting to name an apple should be able to work out its identity and origins or find out where to go for help. The book also celebrates the beauty and diversity of this remarkable fruit.
Publisher: Tewin Orchard
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2014 – The Apple Book
Rosie Sanders
First published in 1988 as The English Apple and still the most trusted and sought-after book for apple identification in the UK, this new edition is revised and updated for an international readership and includes an additional 22 varieties.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2014– A Cornish Pomona
James Evans and Mary Martin
A colourful blend of apple descriptions and fragments of local history, this handbook fills the needs of the enthusiastic gardener and those interested in supplying the regional market. Detailing one hundred and seventy varieties with a wide range of flavours and uses, all are disease resistant in the moist climate of the South West.
Publisher: James Evans and Mary Martin
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2014 – Cider Manual
Bill Bradshaw
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in cider around the world, with breweries having invested millions to meet growing demand. At the same time many people now want to try to make their own cider, and the Cider Manual is here to help.
Publisher: J. H. Haynes & Co Ltd
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2014 – Native Apples of Gloucestershire
Charles Martell
This book is a near definitive account of almost 200 indigenous varieties of Gloucestershire apples. Some varieties go back hundreds of years and include those known for eating, for kitchen use or for cider making. But all are examples – some unique – of fruit developed to fit the soils, climate and economics of the county.
Publisher: Charles Martell
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2014 – Quinces, Growing and Cooking
Jane McMorland Hunter and Sue Dunster
Quinces have become an undeservedly forgotten fruit. This book reintroduces them, making them more accessible and providing an inviting range of recipes. The trees do not require much space, and are easy to grow. The fruits are delicious and versatile and the recipes here extend well beyond jellies and jams.
Publisher: Prospect Books
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2014 – Wild Fruit: A Field Guide to Britain and Europe
Alain and Marie-Jeanne Génevé
A field guide to fruit commonly found in the wild in Britain and Northern Europe. The plant descriptions include information on identification for 220 fruits, and include tasting notes and historical information about the plant’s medicinal uses.
Publisher: Timber Press
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2014 – Cider Apples, the New Pomona
Liz Copas
The newly revised edition of Cider – A Somerset Pomona, which now includes cider apples from all the major cider growing counties, namely Somerset, Devon, Dorset, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Hereford and Worcester. The book also introduces us to new 21st century cider apples, affectionately called ‘The Girls’.
Publisher: Liz Copas
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2013 – Clay Gully, Stories From an Apple Orchard
Sally van Gent
Sally van Gent wonders how to utilise the beautiful land of Clay Gully. Goats? A vineyard? Remembering the sweet fruit she ate as a child she decides to establish a heritage apple orchard.
Publisher: Wakefield Press
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2013 – Apples of North America
Tom Burford
With names like American Beauty, Carter’s Blue, and Fallawater, and flavors ranging from sweet to tart, this treasure trove of unique apples is ripe for discovery. The book is brimming with beautiful portraits of heirloom and modern apples of merit, each accompanied by distinguishing characteristics and common uses.
Publisher: Timber Press
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2013 – The Apple Anthology
ed. by Yvonne Reddick & George Ttoouli
The Apple Anthology is a rich harvest of new, recent and ancient poetry, prose and visual art from a global array of writers, artists and scientists. With a foreword by David Morley, contributions from members of the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers, and a range of intellectuals, creators and collagists, The Apple Anthology is bursting with flavour and delight.
Publisher: Nine Arches Press
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2013 – The Apples and Orchards of Cumbria
Andy Gilchrist
A comprehensive review of Cumbrian apple varieties and of Cumbrian orchards open to the public complied by the Cumbrian orchard groups (SLOG and NCOG), voluntary community groups whose objectives are to conserve, maintain and renovate existing fruit orchards and encourage the planting of new orchards in the county.
Publisher: Hayloft Publishing
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2013 – The Grafter’s Handbook (Revised & Updated Edition)
R. J. Garner & Steve Bradley
The classic reference book on plant propagation by grafting has now been revised and updated for a new generation by respected horticulturalist, Steven Bradley. Everything the dedicated amateur, student and professional horticulturalist wants to know about grafting is here, clearly written in a concise and straightforward style.
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2013- The Tradescants’ Orchard: The Mystery of a Seventeenth-Century Painted Fruit Book
Barrie Juniper & Hanneke Grootenboer
A charming collection of sixty-six early watercolors showing fecund trees with fruits hanging heavily from their branches, The Tradescants’ Orchard is traditionally associated with the renowned father-and-son nurserymen the John Tradescants.
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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2013 – World’s Best Cider: Taste, Tradition and Terroir, from Somerset to Seattle
Pete Brown & Bill Bradshaw
Travelling from the Old to the New World and teaching us not only how to taste it but how to cook with it, Pete Brown and Bill Bradshaw explore every aspect of this fascinating drink and the people who produce it. Here you’ll discover what Johnny Appleseed really planted, find out what the Magners’ effect is and learn why perry is a miracle drink.
Publisher: Jacqui Small
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2012 – Growing Fruit
Alan Mansfield
Gardeners often worry about growing fruit, seeing it as something that is complicated and best left to the experts, but this is not the case. This practical book cuts through the myth and mystique, and explains the skills and techniques required to produce an abundant and delicious crop.
Publisher: Crowood Press
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2012 – The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Apples
Andrew Mikolajski
This comprehensive introduction contains everything you need to know about the history, botany and cultivation of apples, from planting, pruning and propagation to harvesting, storing and cooking.
Publisher: Lorenz Books
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2012 – The Lost Orchards of Cantre’r Gwaelod
Richard Bambrey
The author invokes the Welsh legend of Cantre’r Gwaelod, a land long since drowned beneath the Irish sea, to help him communicate his passion for apple growing. Assisted by glimpses into a mythological past we are enabled to see into a potential future and the need to produce new varieties of apple.
Publisher: Glangwili Press
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2012 – Orchards
Claire Masset
Some of Britain’s surviving orchards are almost six hundred years old, and whether laden with summer fruit or stripped bare by the winter are places of great beauty. This beautifully illustrated book reveals the engaging story and rich diversity of Britain’s apple, pear and cherry orchards.
Publisher: Shire Publications
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2012 – Alcohol and its Role in the Evolution of Human Society
Ian S. Hornsey
This unique book provides a scientific text on the subject of ‘ethanol’ that also aims to include material designed to show ‘non-scientists’ what fermentation is all about. Conversely, scientists may well be surprised to find the extent to which ethanol has played a part in evolution and civilisation of our species.
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
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2011 – Apple: A Global History
Erika Janik
Erika Janik explores the importance of a fruit, born in the mountains of Kazakhstan, which has became a favourite almost everywhere. Food and history lovers will devour this surprising history of one of the world’s most loved and prolific fruits.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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2012 – The Fruit Gardener’s Bible
Lewis Hill & Leonard Perry
Sweeten the growing season with this comprehensive guide to incorporating productive fruiting plants into the garden landscape. Enjoy bushels of crispy apples and baskets of juicy blueberries from your own backyard.
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2011 – Growing Fruit Trees
J. M. Lespinasse & É. Leterme
Jean-Marie Lespinasse and Évelyne Leterme, fruit tree specialists based in France, explain the unique conditions and requirements of fifteen different types of trees ― almond, apple, apricot, cherry, chestnut, fig, grape, hazelnut, kiwi, olive, peach, pear, plum, quince, and walnut.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
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2011 – How to Grow Apples and Make Cider
Bill Bleasdale
Everything you need to know about how to grow apple trees and make cider and grow pear trees and make perry in 36 pages of text and drawings based on my own practical experience. Informative, funny and full of top tips.
Publisher: Welsh Mountain Books
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2011 – The Fruit Tree Handbook
Ben Pike
The Fruit Tree Handbook is a clear, practical guide for both amateur and expert, conveying a deep respect for the natural world and showing how to cultivate healthy trees through good management. Apples, pears, plums, cherries, apricots, peaches and nectarines, as well as less common fruits such as mulberries, medlars and figs, are covered in detail, with recommended varieties of each.
Publisher: Green Books
Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
2011 – The Ten-Minute Gardener’s Fruit-Growing Diary
Val Bourne
Pithy, practical and purposeful – for anyone who loves their plot but is forced to garden in snatched moments – this handy diary is full of tried-and-tested tips from a seasoned old hand, and is the perfect answer to a prayer.
Publisher: Bantam Press
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2011 – The Organic Fruit Gardener
Yvonne Cuthbertson
Gardeners seeking a concise, easy-to-follow approach to fruit growing and maintenance need look no further; this book will provide you with all the practical advice and information that you need.
Publisher: GMC
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2013 – The Apple Pruning Manual – Roger Worracker and Malcom Withnall
2012 – Golden Fire: The Story of Cider – Ted Bruning
2011 – Cider Apples Growers Guide (2nd ed.) – Liz Copas, Roger Umpelby, Angela Berrie
2010 – For the Love of an Orchard – Jane McMorland Hunter, Chris Kelly
2010 – Tender, Vol II: A Cook’s Guide to the Fruit Garden – Nigel Slater
2010 – The Welsh Marches Pomona – Michael Porter, Margaret Gill
2009 – Bob Flowerdew’s Complete Fruit Book – Bob Flowerdew
2009 – Directions for the Gardiner and Other Horticultural Advice – John Evelyn, ed. Maggie Campbell-Culver
2009 – Fruitful Legacy – Susan A. Dolan
2009 – Orchard: A Year in the Life og a Herefordshire Cider Orchard – Gareth Rees-Roberts
2009 – Organic Fruit Production and Viticulture, A Complete Guide – Stella Cubison
2009 – Temperate-Zone Pomology: Physiology and Culture, Third Edition – Melvin Neil Westwood
2008 – Apples of the Welsh Marches – Marcher Apple Network
2008 – Ciderland – James Crowden
2008 – Community Orchards Handbook – Common Ground
2008 – Forgotten Fruits – Christopher Stocks
2008 – Grapes Indoors and Out – Harry Baker and Ray Waite
2007 – Grow Your Own Fruit – Ken Muir
2007 – Home-Grown Fruit – Jane Eastoe
2007 – Man-Made Eden, Historic Orchards in Somerset and Gloucestershire – James Russell
2007 – The Northern Pomona: Apples For Cool Climates – ed. Linden Hawthorne, Elke Laver, Bridget Gillespie
2006 – The Isle of Wight Apple Book – Alison Harding
2006 – The Story of the Apple – Barrie E. Juniper & David J. Mabberley
2006 – Berries – Roger Yepsen
2005 – Fruits of the Hedgerow and Unusual Garden Fruits – Charlotte Popescu
2005 – The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist – Michael Phillips
2005 – The Orchard, a Memoir (reprint ed.) – Adele Crockett Robertson
2003 – Apples, A Field Guide – Michael Clark
2003 – Biology of Apples and Pears – J. E. Jackson
2003 – Ciderlore: Cider in the Three Counties – Fiona Mac
2003 – Fruit, An Illustrated History – Peter Blackburn-Maze
2003 – Le Potager du Roi – Stephanie de Courtois
2002 – Growing Cider Apples: A Guide to Good Practice – Liz Copas, Roger Umpelby
2002 – Favourite Apple Recipes – compiled by J. Salmon (publ.)
2002 – Pomona Britannica, the Complete Plates (Taschen reprint ed.) – George Brookshaw
2002 – Success With Apples and Pears to Eat and Drink – Alan Rowe
2002 – The New Book of Apples – Joan Morgan, Alison Richards
2002 – The Summer Fruits Cookbook – Charlotte Popescu
2001 – A Somerset Pomona: The Cider Apples of Somerset – Liz Copas
2001 – Cabbages & Kings – The Origins of Fruit & Vegetables – Jonathan Roberts
2001 – Der Apfel, Sortannemen und Synonyme – Johann-Heinrich Rolff
2001 – Directory of Apple Cultivars (2nd ed.) – Martin Crawford
2001 – Five Decades With Tropical Fruit, A Personal Journey – William F. Whitman
2001 – Orchard Management 1580-1660 – Robert Morris
2000 – The Common Ground Book of Orchards – Common Ground
1999 – Apples, a Social History – Sally Twiss
1999 – The Autumn Fruits Cookbook – Charlotte Popescu
1999 – The New Guide to Fruit – Kate Whiteman
1999 – Cider’s Story Rough and Smooth – Mark Foot
1999 – Cider, the Forgotten Miracle – James Crowden
1999 – Growing Fruit – Harry Baker
1998 – Apples, the Story of the Fruit of Temptation – Frank Browning
1998 – Cornucopia, the Lore of Fruits & Vegetables – Annie Lise Roberts
1998 – Cox at its Best – the Whole Story – Dan Neuteboom and Malcolm Withnall
1998 – Successful Grape Growing for Eating and Wine Making – Alan Rowe
1998 – The Country House Kitchen Garden 1600-1950 – Ed. C. Anne Wilson
1997 – 100 Great Fruit Desserts – Abigail Johnson Dodge
1997 – The Apple Cookbook – Charlotte Popescu
1997 – The Orchard, A Memoir – Adele Crockett Robinson
1997 – Pears – Jim Arbury, Sarah Pinhey
1996 – Burcombes, Queenies and Colloggetts – Virginia Spiers, Mary Martin & James Evans
1996 – Fruity Stories – Joanna Readman
1996 – Plums: Production, Culture and Cultivar Directory – Martin Crawford
1996 – Pomona’s Harvest – An Illustrated Chronicle of Antiquarian Fruit Literature – H. Frederic Janson
1995 – Fruit Past & Present (RHS Fruit Group 50th Anniversary) – ed. Karen Wilson and Brian Self
1995 – Summer Fruit: A Country Garden Cookbook – Edon Waycott
1995 – The Best of Apples (recipes) – Anon
1994 – Apple Games and Customs – Beatrice Mayfield
1994 – Berries: A Country Garden Cookbook – Sharon Kramis
1994 – Pears: A Country Garden Cookbook – Janet Hazen
1994 – The Brogdale Apple and Pear Recipe Book – Geerings of Ashford
1994 – The Brogdale Stone Fruit Recipe Book – Geerings of Ashford
1992 – Purpleleaf Plums – Arthur Lee Jacobson
1992 – The Cuckoo in June: Tales of a Sussex Orchard – David Atkins
1991 – Apples, A Cookbook – Robert Berkley
1991 – The Apple Source Book – Sue Clifford, Angela King
1991 – The Fruit Garden Displayed (8th ed.) – Harry Baker
1990 – Growing Tree Fruits – Bonham Bazeley
1990 – Paradise Out of a Common Field – Joan Morgan and Alison Richards
1990 – Pruning Hardy Fruits – Jack Woodward
1989 – Hooker’s Finest Fruits – Frederick A. Roach
1988 – A Harvest of Apples – Ruth Ward
1988 – Fruit Culture, Its Science and Art – Kay Ryugo
1988 – The English Apple – Rosanne Sanders
1988 – The Apple Book (U.S. Edtn of The English Apple) – Rosanne Sanders
1987 – Bulmers of Hereford, A Century of Cider-Making – L. P. Wilkinson
1987 – Bulmers Pomona – C. Todhunter, R. Williams and S. Rodney
1987 – The Complete Book of British Berries – David C. Lang
1986 – The Apple Book – Peter Blackburne-Maze
1985 – Cultivated Fruits of Britain: Their Origin and History – F.A. Roach
1985 – The Compleat Strawberry – Stafford Whiteaker
1985 – The Handbook of Soft Fruit Growing – David Turner & Ken Muir
1984 – Cider Making in Wales – John Williams-Davies
1984 – Good Cider – David Mabey
1984 – Traditional Cider Directory – David H. Kitton
1983 – Apples: A Guide to the Identification of International Varieties – John Bultitude
1983 – A Year of Fruits – Sebastian Lousada
1983 – Forgotten Fruit – Francesca Greenoak
1983 – Fruit Pest and Disease Control the Organic Way – Lawrence D. Hills
1982 – Cidermaking (Shire Classics) – Michael B. Quinion
1982 – Jane Grigson’s Fruit Book – Jane Grigson
1982 – The History and Virtues of Cyder – R. K. French
1981 – The Book of Fruit and Fruit Cookery – Paul Dinnage
1979 – A Drink for its Time: Farm Cider Making in the Western Counties – Michael B. Quinion
1979 – Apples, How They Grow – Bruce McMillan
1979 – Grafting Fruit Trees – Larry Southwick
1979 – The Complete Book of Fruit – Leslie Johns & Violet Stevenson
1978 – Simmons Manual of Fruit – Tree, Bush, Cane and Other Varieties – Alan F. Simmons
1978 – The Illustrated History of Gardening – Anthony Huxley
1977 – Cider For All Seasons – Mary Berry
1977 – The Home Orchard Cookery Book – Gillian Painter
1976 – Pruning in the Fruit Garden – F. Hilkenbäumer
1976 – The Complete Handbook of Fruit Growing – Roy Genders
1976 – The Fruit Book – Mary Norwak
1975 – Apples: History, Folklore, Horticulture and Gastronomy – Peter Wynne
1975 – Climate and the Orchard – H. C. Pereira
1975 – Potted Orchards: Growing Fruit in Small Spaces by Alan F. Simmons
1975 – The Compost Fruit Grower: Organic Fruit Growing – W. E. Shelwell-Cooper
1975 – Wild Fruits and Berries – E. A. Ellis
1973 – Fruit Present and Future Vol II – The R.H.S. Fruit Group, ed. Elspeth Napier
1972 – Growing Unusual Fruit – Alan F. Simmons
1971 – National Apple Register of the United Kingdom – Muriel W. G. Smith
1971 – The Root System of Fruit Plants (English translation, revised edition) – V. A. Kolesnikov
1970 – Grow Fruit in Your Greenhouse (1973 reprint ed.) – George E. Whitehead
1967 – The Pruning of Hardy Fruit Trees and Bushes (13th impression) – J. M. S. Potter, revised by E. G. Gilbert
1966 – Pruning Apple Trees – C. R. Thompson
1966 – Fruit Present and Future (RHS Fruit Group 21st Anniversary) – Ed. P. M. Synge and Elspeth Napier
1964 – Dwarfed Fruit Trees – Harold Bradford Tukey
1964 – Establishing a Fruit Garden – Geoffrey F. Bell
1963 – Perry Pears – Ed. L. C. Luckwill and A. Pollard
1962 – The A.B.C. of Fruit Growing – W. E. Shelwell-Cooper
1961 – Compost Fruit Growing – S. R. Williams
1960 – Fruit Trees and the Soil – D. Macer Wright
1958 – The Fruit Year Book, Number Ten – R.H.S. Fruit Group
1958 – The Grafter’s Handbook Revised Edition – R. J. Garner
1957 – Growing Apples – Robert Atkinson
1957 – Raspberries and Loganberries – H. M. Hughes
1956 – Currants and Gooseberries – D. S. Crowther
1956 – Planting Fruit Trees (1973 reprint ed.) – Roy Genders
1956 – Practical Aspects of the Manuring of Fruit Trees in Gardens (revised ed.) – T. Wallace
1956 – The Fruit Year Book, Number Nine – R.H.S. Fruit Group
1955 – Fruit From Trained Trees – Stanley B. Whitehead
1954 – Mr. Cuthbert’s Guide to Growing Fruit Trees (booklet) – Mr. Cuthbert
1954 – The Fruit Year Book, Number Seven – R.H.S. Fruit Group
1954 – The Pruning of Fruit Trees – Paul Champagnat (trans. N.B. Bagenal)
1953 – Science and Fruit – ed. T. Wallace and R. W. Marsh
1952 – The Fruit Year Book, Number Six – R.H.S. Fruit Group
1952 – The Fruit Year Book, Number Five – R.H.S. Fruit Group
1951 – The Fruit Garden Displayed – The Royal Horticultural Society and Geoffrey Cumberlege
1950 – A Fruit Grower’s Diary – Raymond Bush
1950 – The Fruit Year Book, Number Four – R.H.S. Fruit Group
1949 – Fruit Growing for Amateurs – Plant Protection Ltd.
1949 – The Plums of England – H. V. Taylor
1949 – The Pruning of Apples and Pears by Renewal Methods – C. R. Thompson
1949 – Tree Fruit Growing vol I – Apples (revised ed.) – Raymond Bush
1949 – Tree Fruit Growing vol II – Pears, Quinces and Stone Fruits (revised ed.) – Raymond Bush
1948 – Fruit-Growing 2nd edition reprint – N. B. Bagenal
1948 – Hardy Fruit Growing – Sir Frederick Keeble and A. N. Rawes
1948 – Simple Fruit Growing (2nd ed.) – P. K. Bear
1948 – Soft Fruit Growing (3rd ed.) – Raymond Bush
1948 – The Fruit Year Book, Number Two – R.H.S. Fruit Group
1947 – Modern Fruit Growing (8th ed.) – W. P. Seabrook
1947 – Peach Orchards in England – Justin Brooke
1947 – The Fruit Year Book, Number One – R.H.S. Fruit Group
1946 – Diseases of Fruits and Hops (2nd revised ed.) – H. Wormald
1946 – Fruit Bud Development Illustrated by a Series of Charts – U.K. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
1946 – The Apples of England (3rd ed.) – H. V. Taylor
1946 – The Apples of England (2nd ed.) – H. V. Taylor
1946 – The Cultivation of Berried Fruits in Great Britain – Chas. H. Oldham
1945 – Frost and the Fruit Grower – Raymond Bush
1945 – The Pests of Fruit and Hops – A. M. Massee
1944 – Our Heritage of Fruits (re-issued ed.) – Hilda M. Coley
1935 – Apples and Pears, Varieties and Cultivation in 1934 – ed. F. J. Chittenden
1934 – The Pruning of Hardy Fruit Trees (1947 reprint ed.) – Henry Dunkin
1933 – The Apple – Sir A. Daniel Hall and M. B. Crane
1929 – The Anatomy of Dessert (2006 reprint ed.) – Edward A. Bunyard
1927 – Orcharding – Victor Ray Gardner, Frederick Charles Bradford, Henry Daggett Hooker
1926 – Fruit and its Cultivation (4th Edition) – T. W. Sanders
1923(?) – The Photographic Guide to Pruning Fruit Trees (p.o.d. reprint ed.) – Ephraim Porter Felt
1917 – Pruning Fruit Trees (reprint ed.) – W. H. Alderman and E. C. Auchter
1913 – Pictorial Practical Fruit Growing – Walter P. Wright
1901 – Bush-Fruits (2nd ed. reprint ed.) – Fred W. Card
1899 – Catalogue of Fruit Trees Cultivated by George Bunyard & Co. (p.o.d. reprint ed.) – George Bunyard & Co.
1891 – The Miniature Fruit Garden (reprint ed.) – Thomas Rivers
1890 – Fruit Farming For Profit (3rd ed.) – George Bunyard
1884 – The Fruit Manual (5th ed.) (2002 reprint ed.) – Robert Hogg
1862 – The Science and Practice of Grafting, Pruning and Training Fruit Trees (p.o.d. reprint ed.) – Alphonse Du Breuil (trans. W. Wardle)
1779 – The British Fruit Gardener and Art of Pruning (p.o.d. reprint ed.) – John Abercrombie