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
• Chapter Six: Harvest 1973 - 1989
• Afterword: Next Year's Crop - Looking on to the Second Hundred Years
• Appendix

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A Fruitful Century

THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FRUIT GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION 1889 - 1989

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by David Dendy and Kathleen M. Kyle

Edited by Joan McIntyre
British Columbia Fruit Growers' Assocation 1990

This history is dedicated to the pioneers of fruit growing, who have made British Columbia blossom during the past hundred years, and to their successors during the coming century, who will keep it fruitful.

Copyright © 1990
All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in newspapers or magazines.
ISBN 1-55056-060-3

Published by
British Columbia Fruit Growers' Association
1473 Water Street
Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 1J6
Canada
First Printing, 1990

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