Practical Pomology : a Field Guide for New England by Sean Turley

Trade paperback format.  A practical guide for apple lovers and growers, with an emphasis on apples historically grown in New England, locally produced here in Portland, Maine (2025)!  This unique little book is densely packed with information, with over 100 original illustrations and 34 full-color photographs.  Beautiful and useful!!! Apples are everywhere; so are books about apples. But despite the extraordinary quantity and quality of tomes about pomes, no text has ever been printed that provides a comprehensive, systematic approach to describing and identifying historic varieties of apples—let alone one that condenses the foundational work by pomologists over the last couple of centuries into a simple-to-follow, practical resource for the expert and novice alike. Practical Pomology: A Field Guide aims to fill that void. Across its pages, you will be taught how to recognize and differentiate between seedling and grafted trees; describe and classify the anatomical features of the app