The Fundamentals of Fruit Production

The Fundamentals of Fruit Production attempts to focus attention on the tree's growth and its steadily increasing requirements and on the conditions that make it profitable as a producer of fruit. Practices are considered only as they affect these conditions, not as ends in themselves. This point of view has necessitated a rather wide departure from a conventional arrangement of subject matter. The common orchard practices are not sacred in themselves; indeed, they are important only in so far as they help vegetative growth and especially fruit production. Fundamentally the plant's growth and functioning depend on the nature of the environment and the adjustment thereto and not directly on cultural practices, which only modify the relation of the plant to the environmental complex.