A Fruitful Century

• Author's Note
• Introduction: Preparing the Ground
• Chapter One: Rootstock 1889 - 1910
• Chapter Two: Grafting Over 1910 - 1927
• Chapter Three: Shaping the Framework 1927-1939
• Chapter Four: Blossom 1939 - 1957
• Chapter Five: Thinning 1957 - 1973
  • Investigation and Dissidents
  • The MacPhee Report
  • Response to the Report
  • Quality Control
  • The Changing Okanagan
  • Crop Insurance
  • Industry Integration
  • Boom and Bust: The Swing of the Sixties
  • The Fruitleggers
  • The Land Commission Act
• Chapter Six: Harvest 1973 - 1989
• Afterword: Next Year's Crop - Looking on to the Second Hundred Years
• Appendix

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Chapter Five: Thinning 1957 - 1973

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