Gooseberries

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141397101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 61

Book Description
"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied here by 'The Kiss' and 'The Two Volodyas' - three exquisite depictions of love and loss in nineteenth-century Russia by Chekhov, the great master of the short story form. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). Chekhov's works available in Penguin Classics are The Steppe and Other Stories, Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, The Shooting Party, Plays and A Life in Letters.

Gooseberries to Oranges

Author: Barbara Cohen
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
A young girl reminisces about the journey from her cholera-ravaged village in Eastern Europe to the United States where she is reunited with her father.

Currants, Gooseberries, and Jostaberries

Author: Danny Barney
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482277824
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Currants, Gooseberries, and Jostaberries

Author: Danny Barney
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781560222972
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
Rediscover the economic potential of growing Ribes cultivars in the United States and Canada! Currants, Gooseberries, and Jostaberries: A Guide for Growers, Marketers, and Researchers in North America explores the biology and history of growing these small fruits as commercial crops in North America. This book provides authoritative information on the potential risks and profits of establishing a currant or gooseberry farm and offers step-by-step details for cost-effective set-up, maintenance, and post-harvest activities. This book will be a reliable reference for prospective growers and Ribes researchers. Currants, Gooseberries, and Jostaberries presents in detail the necessary components of successful Ribes culture farming, including: site and soil selection design of planting site plant propagation cultivar selection cultural practice pest and disease management harvesting and marketing The book supplies the latest production figures for Ribes crops worldwide to help you choose which crops to grow. It also contains detailed information on fruit biochemistry, allowing you to market to human health industries. Currants, Gooseberries, and Jostaberries is the first North American publication to focus exclusively on Ribes culture in more than 50 years. It’s your one-stop resource for up-to-date information this side of the Atlantic Ocean. Currants, Gooseberries, and Jostaberries provides you with tables, figures, and appendices, such as a table of the state regulations governing the importation and growing of currants, gooseberries, and jostaberries as listed by the Department of Agriculture calendars of what you need to do throughout the year to prepare, plant, and manage Ribes crops a list of cultivars available in North America tables of suggested parentage for currants and gooseberries to breed for improved fruit and juice quality, disease resistance or frost resistance, or improved mechanics for harvest a site selection checklist an enterprise budget showing typical costs of producing currants and gooseberries for sale in the market

Currants and Gooseberries

Author: Albert Hugh Bryan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 768

Book Description
"This bulletin brings out certain important and well-established facts about foods by a new and graphic method. Heretofore, the composition of foods has been presented to the housekeeper of foods and the student chiefly by means of figures and in terms of percentages. This bulletin presents such facts not only in the older way but also by diagrams which should appeal quickly to the eye and be of assistance to the memory." -- p. ii.

Currants and Gooseberries

Author: George McMillan Darrow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blister rust
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description

A Way to Garden

Author: Margaret Roach
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604698772
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
“A Way to Garden prods us toward that ineffable place where we feel we belong; it’s a guide to living both in and out of the garden.” —The New York Times Book Review For Margaret Roach, gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a calling. Her unique approach, which she calls “horticultural how-to and woo-woo,” is a blend of vital information you need to memorize and intuitive steps you must simply feel and surrender to. In A Way to Garden, Roach imparts decades of garden wisdom on seasonal gardening, ornamental plants, vegetable gardening, design, gardening for wildlife, organic practices, and much more. She also challenges gardeners to think beyond their garden borders and to consider the ways gardening can enrich the world. Brimming with beautiful photographs of Roach’s own garden, A Way to Garden is practical, inspiring, and a must-have for every passionate gardener.

Forgotten Fruits

Author: Christopher Stocks
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409061973
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
In Forgotten Fruits, Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating - often rather bizarre - stories behind Britain's rich heritage of fruit and vegetables. Take Newton Wonder apples, for instance, first discovered around 1870 allegedly growing in the thatch of a Derbyshire pub. Or the humble gooseberry which, among other things, helped Charles Darwin to arrive at his theory of evolution. Not to mention the ubiquitous tomato, introduced to Britain from South America in the sixteenth century but regarded as highly poisonous for hearly 200 years. This is a wonderful piece of social and natural history that will appeal to every gardener and food aficionado.

Three Articles on Growing Currants and Gooseberries - Including Information on Propagation, Planting, Pruning, Pests, Varieties

Author: Various
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473354900
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Book Description
This book is three instructional articles on growing currents and gooseberries, with information on planting, pruning, harvesting, pests and diseases, marketing, and many other related aspects. Easy-to-digest and full of useful information and invaluable tips, this volume is highly recommended for those interested in growing fruit, and would make for a worthy addition to home collections. Contents include: “Currents and Gooseberries”, “Red Currant”, “Black Currant”, “Missouri or Flowering Currant”, “Propagation”, “Mulching”, “Pruning”, “Tree Currants”, “Winter Protection”, “Marketing”, “Insects”, “Remedy”, “Lice”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on growing fruit.

Spoonfuls of Germany

Author: Nadia Hassani
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
ISBN: 9780781810579
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
This book goes beyond the sauerkraut and knackwurst stereotype to unveil the often overlooked diversity of German cuisine. 170 regional recipes range from classic dishes, such as spaetzle with cheese and sauerbraten to forgotten delicacies like Westfalian pumpernickel pudding. Numerous profiles, anecdotes, and food lore complete the book.