📒 This book includes a comprehensive guide to fruit cultivation extensively illustrated with black and white photographs. A book that will appeal to the modern fruit-grower, this timeless handbook contains a wealth of information on the topic and is as valuable today as at the time of its original publication. This book concerns itself primarily with the growing of figs, pineapples, bananas, melons, oranges, and lemons; it is a must-have for gardeners interested in growing such fruits. Sir William Watson (1858 – 1935) was an English poet who was renowned in his time for the controversial political content of his verse. This book has been chosen for modern republication due to its educational value, republished now with a new prefatory biography of the author.