Abstract
THE British fruit crop of 1945 was very seriously curtailed by severe frost damage, and many parts of the country have experienced similar trouble in the present season. Mr. Bush shows in this volume thav the fruit yield of England and Wales varies from the average by nearly 300 per cent, as against 30 per cent in the United States, 37.5 per cent in Canada, and 17 per cent in Australia. The causes of this large variation are not fully understood, but damage by frost must be important. These facts assault the whole structure of home fruit production, and in a generation much less content to accept ‘acts of God’ than formerly, it is natural to inquire what can be done to mitigate the trouble.
Frost and the Fruitgrower
By Raymond Bush. Second edition. Pp. viii + 119 + 23 plates. (London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1946.) 10s. 6d. net.
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GRAINGER, J. Frost and the Fruitgrower. Nature 158, 78 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158078a0
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