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Steve Cummins: 
 
 
or call   
607.227.6147
 
 
 

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Dr. James N. Cummins
(Jim)
 
Office Phone: 
 865. 681.8423
 
Verizon Cell phone:
607.227.6172
after 9 p.m. or weekends 
 
 

The Extra Page--Interesting tidbits and such

Planting Bareroot Trees >> A note to our Organic friends >> Tree-Training Systems for the Home Orchard >> The Pollination Page >> The extra page >> Helpful links

THE PAPER POMOLOGIST:
Good Things to Read

For the Professional Fruit Grower:
Intensive Orchard Management, by Dr. Bruce H. Barritt.  211 pages -- the best book in the business.Order from Good Fruit Grower, 1005 Tieton Dr., Yakima WA 98902
 
Compact Fruit tree.  Proceedings of each annual meeting of the International Dwarf Fruit Tree Assoc., the top growers' organization in North America. Annual dues $50; to Charles J. Ax, Jr., 14 So. Main, Middleburg, PA 17842.

 
Good Fruit Grower.  A very high quality monthly magazine, focused on West Coast deciduous tree fruit crops.
 

Great Lakes Fruit Grower News.  A very high quality monthly newspaper, , aimed at Midwest and Eastern orcharding.  PO Box 128, Sparta, MI 49345; $18/year.
 

American Fruit Grower.  Monthly magazine covering a wide range of fruit crops across the country.
 

Fruit Varieties Journal.  A Quarterly magazine of the American Pomological Society.  Variety and rootstock introductions and evaluations; heavy to scientific reports.  Membership $25/yr. to Dr. Rob Crassweller, 102 Tyson Bldg., University Park, PA 16802.
 
For the Home Orchardist:
Pomona.  The quarterly journal of the North American Fruit Explorers (NAFEX).  Member-written short notes, covering every fruit crop imaginable, from Manitoba to Miami.  Well worth the $8/yr membership fee.  Jill Vorbeck, RR#1, Chapin, IL 62628.
 
Dwarfed Fruit Trees, by Dr. H.B. Tukey.  Although 35 years from the first printing, this classic is still great reading, especially the sections on espalier and other older tree training methods.
 

Fruit, Berry and Nut Inventory,Kent Whealy, ed.  An outstanding compilation of fruit varieties, with descriptions and sources.  Availble from Seed Savers Exchange, 3076 N. Winn Rd., Decorah, Iowa 52101
 
Cooperative Extension
Don't forget your local Cooperative Extension Service.  They have excellent "how to" publications for little or nothing.  If they don't have the answer to your question, they will refer you to somebody who probably does.