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A CONSIDERABLE literature on the more important fruits of tropical and subtropical countries exists, much of it in the form of bulletins or articles in journals which are not easily accessible to all who require them. A volume in which all the more valuable information so widely distributed had been collected would have proved a boon to many. Such a purpose Mr. Popenoe's manual has, in a large measure, fulfilled. But the work is far from being a mere compilation. The author has drawn freely on the writings of others, as he admits, but his wide knowledge of the subject has enabled him to select critically from the material at his disposal, and having travelled extensively in tropical and subtropical regions as agricultural explorer for the United States Department of Agriculture, as well as having had practical experience in fruit-culture in California and Florida, he has produced a volume based largely on his own observations and experiments. Certain well-known fruits, as pointed out on the title-page, have been excluded for the reason that they have been already dealt with in other volumes, while the term “fruits,” as understood in the volume under notice, does not include nuts.
Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits: Excluding the Banana, Coconut, Pineapple, Citrus Fruits, Olive and Fig.
By W. Popenoe. (The Rural Manuals.) Pp. xv + 474 + 24 plates. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1920.) 30s. net.
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Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits: Excluding the Banana, Coconut, Pineapple, Citrus Fruits, Olive and Fig . Nature 108, 334 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108334a0
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