Guide to Cultivate Plants

Representing almost 80 years of combined experience Guide to Cultivated Plants includes concise textual descriptions and attractive full color illustrations of over 300 crop species. These comprise 11 commodity groups ranging from vegetables, both horticulture and forages species, and arable crops to the major fruits and plantation crops. All major cultivated plants from temperate, Mediterranean and tropical climates are covered and the morphology, botany, ecology, agronomy and use of cultivated crops is fully discussed.

Beverages and Tobacco: Cocoa, Coffee, Tea, Tobacco

Edible Fruits and Nuts:Fruits. Apple, Avocado, Banana, Cherry, Citrus, Grape, Mango, Papaya, Peach, and apricot, Pear, Pineapple, Plum, Ribes fruits, Rubus fruits and Strawberry Nuts. Almond, Cashew,Hazel, Pistachio, Sweet chestnut and Walnut

Elastomers: Rubber

Fibre Crops: Cotton, Flax, Hemp, Jute and Sisal

Forages: Forage grasses, Forage legumes:Temperate, Forage legumes: Tropical

Oil Crops: Castor bean, Coconut, Groundnut, Oil palm, Olive, Rapeseed, Safflower, Sesame and Sunflower

Protein Crops: Chickpea and pigeonpea, Faba bean, Pea and lentil, Phaseolus beans, Soybean and Vigna beans

Spices and Flavourings: Bay laurel, Cinnamon and cassia, Clove, Ginger, Hop, Labiate herbs mustards and horse radish, Nutmeg, Pepper and Umbellifer herbs

Starch Crops: Cereals, Barley, Maize, Millets, Oat, Pseudo cereals, Rice, Rye, Sorghum, Wheat, Root and tuber crops, Cassava, Potato, Sweet potato, Yams, Minor tropical starch crops, Plantain and ensent, Sago palm, Taro and tannia

Sugar Crops: Sugar beet, Sugar cane

Vegetables: Allium crops, Artichoke, Asparagus, Aubergine, Brassicas; European Brassicas; Oriental Capsicum peppers, Carrot, Chicory and endive, Cucurbits, Lettuce,Mushrooms, Okra, kankong, Ceylon spinach, Radish and cress, Spinach and Tomato