12/22/2008


Hi Everyone:

A great new citrus book is now available through
Amazon Books , I just ordered it and it's cheaper
than the publisher or Border Books, it's a hard
cover coffee table book....

Title : Growing Citrus: The Esssential Gardners Guide
By Martin Page
190 pages
Hard Cover Coffee Table Book
Reg: $34- Sale $ 23- I beleive

Cheers....Joe

UPS tells me that my copy should arrive today. Something to read over the holiday!

.....Alan.

12/23/2008


Hi Alan:

I can't wait to get mine, I paid extra to receive
it by the 24th....Here in Santa Fe , NM we're having a
blizzard.........


Cheers...Joe...

When I ordered my copy I wasn't expecting it until after Christmas as that is what Amazon led me to believe. Nevertheless it came in about an hour ago.

Not a large volume, but what I've seen of it so far looks pretty good. Nice photos.

.....Alan.

12/25/2008


Hi Everyone....


" MERRY CHRISTMAS, MAY THERE BE PEACE
ON EARTH."

Late yesterday I received the book: " Growing
Citrus." The photography is great, they even
give you the websites of the famous gardens
with citrus from around the world plus recipes
and much more. ...


Cheers....Joe...

I recieved a copy for Christmas from my daughter.. Great pictures, lots of good info ! I was surprised by one of the sources they list for citrus in the US. You guess which one! Hint: they had about a 90% negative rating on Garden Watchdog before they forced GW to remove their names!

Stan that just means that if you pay enough money you can get anything in print... Anyone that purchased anything from a company like that needs their head examined.

BTW, If you look at the authors next book on Amazon... Maybe these references & this book make sense...

http://www.amazon.com/How-Became-Stupid-Martin-Page/dp/0142004952/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230227958&sr=1-2

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My copy arrived a few days ago, and I find a few errors and a few other disappointing things.

1. He says calamondins produce numerous SWEET fruit. I have eaten a lot of them, but I have NEVER had one I would call sweet!

2. He says lemons are used for blah blah, and also other nefarious things. My dictionary says nefarious means extremely wicked. No idea what the author meant by this.

3. He says calamondins are used for blah, blah, and some other bizarre things. But, he never tells us what bizarre things.

4. He says that the Washington navel really came from Spain, through Brazil, to the USA, but provides no reference to support the statement. This is at odds with about everything else I have read about the Washington navel.

I have not finished reading the whole book, but these seemed to be a bit odd for what is supposed to be the essential guide to citrus.

Maybe I am just getting to be a grumpy old man and these are just minor things that don't bother anyone else.

Washington Navel origin per CCPP and "The Citrus Industry".

http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/washington.html

The origin of the Washington or Bahia variety is not known but, after a study at first hand, Dorsett, Shamel, and Popenoe (1917) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture concluded that it was probably a limb sport that was found in a tree of the Selecta variety near Bahia, Brazil, and first propagated some time between 1810 and 1820. In the opinion of the writer, it is more likely that the parent variety was the Portuguese navel (Umbigo) orange described by Risso and Poiteau (1818-22) and that it originated somewhat earlier.

Millet

Tolumnia, I dont want to sound critical either and I havent read the book.. just glanced thru. I found one glaring error where he is supposed to have a picture of flying dragon trifoliate. I would guess that 99% of the people on this board could correctly ID a flying dragon. The picture published in the book is of regular trifoliate.. no curved thorns, no twisted branches. Maybe he wrote this book after his other was already published, titled: "How I Became Stupid!" I think I will start proof reading it and see if I can come up with some other non facts!

Tolumnia, you're still young. You don't know how many things we can do with lemons and calamondins!
For Washington navel, it's true. Probably coming from Portugal. It is clearly explained page 15, right column of "Citrus, Varieties of the world" of James saunt. And it was probably coming from Asia like the rest.
Countries and cultures are selfish and self-centered. For USA a variety start to exist the first time it is released in the states. We do the same in Europe.

Stan, too late for me to change my mind. I already ordered it.

The Book "The Citrus Industry" does mention that a Portuguese grower, did first produce Washington Navels in Bahia Brazil. I bet in reality no one is 100 percent sure the exact origin. (???) - Millet

I'm about half done with my copy. Nice photos, good layout. The container culture info is a bit weak, but it can be made to work. He does at least warn against over potting and excessive watering.

But whatever its shortcomings may be it does seem to have one thing going for it. I took it with me up to the farm in Georgia for the family Christmas gathering where it caught my dad's eye so that he started reading it himself. Now he wants me to bring him a satsuma he can keep in a container. My step-dad wants a potted lemon as well.

Score two more for the citrus bowl!

.....Alan.

Mr. Martin Page's book "Growing Citrus", is without a doubt the worst book (possibly the second worst book) I have in my collection of citrus literature. I wonder if Mr. Page has ever actually grown a containerized citrus tree. The number of areas in his book that I cannot agree with is much to long to list on this electric forum. However, I am grateful that all was not lost, I did learn on page 48 that if a terracotta container falls over, there is a strong chance that the container might break.

Gratefully it did include some pretty pictures.

Millet

Millet