Bristol nursery. A catalogue of forest trees, evergreen and flowering shrubs, fruit trees, herbaceous, green-house, and hot-house plants.

Mode of access: Internet.

Hints on the formation of gardens and pleasure grounds. With designs, in various styles of rural embellishment: comprising plans for laying out flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, and the arrangement of glass-houses, hot walls, and stoves ... To which is added, a priced catalogue of fruit and forest trees, shrubs, and plants, adapted to villa grounds ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The fruits and fruit trees of America; or, The culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country.

"Abbreviations and books quoted": p. xi-xiv.

The gardeners dictionary : containing the methods of cultivating and improving all sorts of trees, plants, and flowers, for the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure gardens, as also those which are used in medicine : with directions for the culture of vineyards, and making of wine in England : in which likewsie are included the practical parts of husbandry /

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The timber-tree improved, or, The best practical methods of improving different lands with proper timber : and those fruit-trees whose woods make the most profitable returns to their owners, according to the newest inventions, by the plough, harrow, and other methods most approved of : in two parts /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 08045.

A treatise on the insects most prevalent on fruit trees, and garden produce, giving an account of the different states they pass through, the depredations they commit, and recipes for their destruction, including the recipes of various authors, with remarks on their utility; also, a few hints on the causes and treatment of mildrew and canker on fruit trees and cucumbers, &c. &c. &c.

Mode of access: Internet.

The orchard: including the management of wall and standard fruit trees, and the forcing pit; with selected lists and synonymes of the most choice varieties.

"Head gardener to His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, at Dalkeith."

The British farmer's cyclopaedia; or, Complete agricultural dictionary, including every science or subject dependant on, or connected with improved modern husbandry; with the breeding, feeding, and management of live stock, the modern art of farriery, cure of the diseases of dogs, the management of bees, the culture of fruit and forest trees, of cyder, of malt liquor, and made wines

Title-page preceded by engr. t.p. for 2d ed., 1808.

Tree wounds and diseases; their prevention and treatment, with a special chapter on fruit trees,

Mode of access: Internet.

The fruits and fruit trees of America; the culture, propagation, and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country.

Mode of access: Internet.

The American fruit culturist : containing directions for the propagation and culture of fruit trees in the nursery, orchid and garden : with descriptions of the principal American and foreign varieties cultivated in the United States /

Mode of access: Internet.

The science of horticulture, including a practical system for the management of fruit trees, arranged on demonstrative physiological principles; illustrated by sketches, in twelve plates. With a commentary on the works of Bradley, Hitt, Miller, Forsyth, Knight, Kirwan, Sir Humphry Davy, and Mrs. Ibbotson.

Mode of access: Internet.

Pesticide bioconcentration modelling for fruit trees.

The model presented allows simulating the pesticide concentration in fruit trees and estimating the pesticide bioconcentration factor in fruits of woody species. The model allows estimating the pesticide uptake by plants through the water transpiration stream and also the time in which maximum pesticide concentration occur in the fruits. The equation proposed presents the relationships between bioconcentration factor (BCF) and the following variables: plant water transpiration volume (Q), pesticide transpiration stream concentration factor (TSCF), pesticide stem-water partition coefficient (KWood,w), stem dry biomass (M) and pesticide dissipation rate in the soil-plant system (kEGS). The modeling started and was developed from a previous model ?Fruit Tree Model? (FTM), reported by Trapp and collaborators in 2003, to which was added the hypothesis that the pesticide degradation in the soil follows a first order kinetic equation. The model fitness was evaluated through the sensitivity analysis of the pesticide BCF values in fruits with respect to the model entry data variability.

Activating Mango Fruit Defence to Anthracnose Disease

The fungus causing anthracnose disease in mango, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, (C g.), infects immature fruit early in the season, then enters a long latent phase. After harvest, when fruit start to ripen, the latency breaks and the fungus ramifies through the peel and pulp tissues causing black disease lesions. The breaking of pathogen latency in ripening mango fruit has been correlated with decreasing concentrations of the endogenous antifungal resorcinol compounds (Droby et al., 1986). The level of these antifungal resorcinols vary among mango cultivars (Droby et a1 , 1986). Controlling diseases by managing natural resistance of fruit to fungal attack could minimize the use of pesticides, which have become of major public concern on health and environmental grounds. The plant resistance activator benzo(l,2,3)thiadiazole-7-carbothioic acid S-methyl ester (trade name Bion®) has been widely reported as an effective inducer of systemic resistance. For example, Bion® was reported to induce pathogenesis-related proteins (PR proteins) and stimulate plant defence in peas (Dann and Deverall, 2000) and roses (Suo and Leung, 2001). However, until now, there is no information about the role of Bion® in activation of mango (cv. Kensington Pride) fruit resistance to anthracnose disease. The aim of this research is to determine the effect of resistance activators on defence responses of mango fruit to anthracnose disease.

Fruit maturity and soundness relevant to feeding choice by fruit-piercing moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in citrus crops in northeast Australia

Fruit-piercing moths are significant pests of a range of fruit crops throughout much of the world's tropics and subtropics. Feeding damage by the adult moths is most widely reported in varieties of citrus. In the years 2003 and 2004, fruit-piercing moth activity was observed regularly at night in citrus crops in northeast Australia, to determine the level of maturity (based on rind colour) and soundness of fruit attacked. 'Navelina' navel and 'Washington' navel orange, grapefruit and mixed citrus crops were assessed, and fruit was rated and placed into five categories: green, colouring, ripe, overripe and damaged. There were no statistical differences in the percentage of fruit attacked in each category across crops. However, within the individual crops significant proportions of green 'Navelina' fruit (58.7%) and green mixed citrus (57.1%) were attacked in 2004. Among all the crops assessed, 25.1% of moth feeding occurred on overripe or damaged fruit. Crops started to be attacked at least 8 weeks before picking, but in two crops there were large influxes of moths (reaching 27 and 35 moths/100 trees, respectively) immediately before harvest. Moth activity was most intense between late February and late March. Eudocima fullonia (Clerck) represented 79.1% of all moths recorded on fruit, with Eudocima materna (L.), Eudocima salaminia (Cramer) and Serrodes campana (Guen.) the only other species observed capable of inflicting primary damage. Our results suggest that growers should monitor moth activity from 8 weeks before harvest and consider remedial action if moth numbers increase substantially as the crop matures or there is a history of moth problems. The number of fruit pickings could be increased to progressively remove ripe fruit or early harvest of the entire crop contemplated if late influxes of moths are known.