Detailed coverage of the latest research on plant physiology, including flowering and pollination in trees, apple fruit development and ripening;Reviews current best practice in tree training, pruning and thinning operations, including the use of growth regulators and new areas such as mechanisation and automation;Discusses the range of fungal and viral diseases affecting apples

Sweet and sour cherries (Prunus avium and Prunus cerasus) are important fruit crops for which demand is high and growing. A significant number of new varieties, rootstocks and training systems have been released or developed in recent years in order to improve the efficiency and profitability of cherry orchards. Cherries: Botany, Production and Uses covers the genetics, ecophysiology, production, protection and uses of cherries. Presenting up-to-date scientific data and applied information...

Hunchbacks don't get love. They get ridicule and scorn. That suits Wyrn just fine. As the son of a warlord, he resolves to die earning his father's respect in a tournament instead. The plan backfires and he's forced to marry a princess against his will.She's 18, beautiful, and suspicious. There is no way a king would give away his ONLY child to a random man much less a hunchback. Something must be wrong with her. And so, Wyrn decides to give her back.The only problem? She w...

A powerful novella of faith, freedom, and divine destiny in ancient Rome.Outside Rome, 190 CE. Magnus has won eight battles in the arena. Four more victories will earn him freedom, but the path to liberty demands more than blood on sand.When a mysterious traveler speaks of a God unlike Rome's cruel deities, Magnus discovers a different kind of strength. As his faith ignites, it spreads like wildfire among his fellow gladiators and the broken children who se...

The real world can be painfully predictable. From infancy, we’re taught right and wrong, good and bad, and acceptable and unacceptable. Each stage of life thereafter introduces new rules and lessons intended to teach us the “right way” to think and behave. We like to consider ourselves independent thinkers, fully conscious of our choices and actions, but most of us are essentially following a script written collaboratively by our parents, teachers, and religious, cultural, and institutiona...

Fire Starter is a collection of 30 daily devotionals to grow readers in their walk of every day, everywhere Kingdom Laborship. Readers will be encouraged every day with a verse, devotional, challenge, and prayer.

As you look around, youʼve seen it. The needs of the world are overwhelmingly great. How will they all possibly be met? Jesus declared: "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.ˮThereʼs only one answer: every person living an up-close life with Jesus and advancing Godʼs Kingdom every day, everywhere . . . A movement of More Kingdom Laborers impacting every sphere of society for Christ! And that begins with YOU!Are you ready for action but not sure where to begin?...

"Is this guy here to survive... or is he on some kind of five star wilderness vacation?!"A violent tropical storm tears through the primeval forests of Tongyun Mountain. Elite special forces veterans, seasoned outdoorsmen, and world famous survival experts are freezing in the mud, desperately searching for clean water while their mental states slowly collapse.Meanwhile, an eighteen year old college freshman is relaxing inside a flawless bamboo fortress he built himself, cas...

Stories are written by the winners. Winners who never fail to paint themselves in a 'favorable' light. I've been called evil. Twisted. Strange. Heartless.All fair assessments; I dispute none of these claims. In fact, I hold my head high while confessing to the evil, twisted, strange, and heartless things that I've done. The things, those ignorant of the truth, would condemn. But all people are capable of all things under the right conditions, good or bad.Don't believe me? I...

Become unbreakable. Forge the mind of a Stoic warrior in just 30 days.In a world of distractions, excuses, and weakness, most men drift through life reactive and soft.You're not most men.Maximum Mental Fortitude is the no-BS, 30-day bootcamp that fuses ancient Stoic wisdom (Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca) with modern discipline to build an unbreakable mind.Cold plunges that shock your system. Fasted runs that test your wi...

In Maddison's last visit to the ancient city, she encountered a man. More surprising was what he lacked on his face....He wore no mask.A hundred years since the Great Disaster and he not only lived beyond infancy, but he breathed the air. No one breathed free air anymore at the risk of dying cancerous and crazed.Nothing of value is free—not the water, not the land, not the food......and certainly not the air.

A short story for Halloween from my collection PRESSED LEAVES.