The Apple Book - Rilegato

Sanders, Rosie

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0711231419 ISBN 13: 9780711231412

Casa editrice: Frances Lincoln, 2010

Riassunto

England has perhaps the most perfect orchards in the world, and this book is a celebration of the supreme loveliness of the English apple. In 142 sensuously detailed watercolors, Rosie Sanders depicts the unrivaled range of form, color, and texture that characterize such varieties as the Beauty of Bath, the Peasgood Nonsuch, Cox's Orange Pippin, and the Egremont Russet. The apples are shown together with their blossom, twig, and leaf, and a detailed description records their shape, color, aroma, and season, as well as something of the history of each variety. Marginal line drawings of each apple in cross-section and its pip formation complete a comprehensive guide to identification and a source of inspiration for apple growers. Its usefulness is enhanced by a practical essay on apple growing by Harry Baker, fruit officer for many years at the Royal Horticultural Society and one of Britain's foremost authorities on apple growing.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

As an identification manual it is unparalleled, but even if you are not within ten miles of an apple tree, this is a book worth having. It is beautifully put together and full of intriguing information about how different apples got their names.' Anna Pavord in The Independent on the first edition of The Apple Book 'First published in 1988 and still the most sought-after and trusted book for apple identification in the UK due in no small part to these exquisite botanically accurate illustrations. --Royal Horticultural Society

An excellent modern-day pomona, indespensible to the home gardener and small-scale fruit grower... Rosie Saunders is also a botanical illustrator and has supplied her own equally beautiful paintings - one for each of her varieties. Her smaller overall selection will perhaps concentrate the gardener's mind when it comes to choosing from the many, and former RHS fruit officer Harry Barker's chapter on cultivation renders the practical side delightfully straightforward. --Hortus

For the budding pomologist, there is The Apple Book by botanical artist, Rosie Sanders ... it depicts in delicious watercolours and precise line drawings 144 varieties of apple. It is one of the most beautiful garden-related books I ve seen this year --The Irish Times

L'autore:

Rosie Sanders is widely recognized as one of Britain's leading botanical artists. She has been awarded five Gold medals by the Royal Horticultural Society and won the Royal Academy miniature award. Best known for her superlative studies of fruit, apples in particular, Rosie has devoted much of her time recording old and present varieties culminating in this book. She lives on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon.Harry Baker was fruit officer for many years at the Royal Horticultural Society and is one of Britain's foremost authorities on apple growing.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Frances Lincoln
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0711231419
• ISBN 13: 9780711231412
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 168