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With the aid of colour photographs and illustrations, Glenn Tankard shows how to identify tropical fruit and explains what tastes to expect once have peeled away the uninviting skin. He discusses their culinary uses and includes a number of original recipes. He also gives advice on how to slect attrative and exotic plants, how to create the right environment or microclimate to grow them in your own garden, what conditions they require to fruit successfully and the pests and diseases that may attack them. With this book as a guide to the range of new fruit becoming available, many and rewarding days lie ahead of the adventurous gardeners. 

152 pages, illustrated, photos

Publication Details

  • Published: 1987
  • Publisher: Viking O'Neil
  • ISBN-10: 0670902055
  • ISBN-13: 978-0670902057
  • Dewey Decimal: 634.099
  • ECHO Library: 634.099 TAN

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