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Author Playfair, Susan R., author.

Title America's founding fruit : the cranberry in a new environment / Susan Playfair
Published Hanover : University Press of New England, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 243 pages)
Contents A perfect design -- The first cultivators -- Planting -- Irrigation -- A matter of insects -- Organic, sustainable, or almost conventional -- Pollination -- Tricking the vines -- The harvest, dry or wet? -- Processing, handling, and distribution -- Hybrids taken to a new level -- From tart to sweet -- Warming or chilling -- Something gained, something lost -- Epilogue -- For the cook (recipes, pages 181-212)
Summary SUSAN PLAYFAIR is the author of Vanishing Species: Saving the Fish, Sacrificing the Fisherman. She lives in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Visit her online at www.susanplayfair.com
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index
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Subject Cranberries -- United States
Cranberries -- United States -- History
GARDENING -- Fruit.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Cranberries
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781611686333
1611686334
Other Titles Cranberry in a new environment