For commercial growers, students, academics, and gardeners, Davies and Jackson (horticulture and horticultural sciences, U. of Florida) discuss the everyday aspects of citrus growing in Florida and underlying horticultural principles. They cover the history of citrus production; climate and soils; systematics and botany; cultivars, rootstocks, and improvement; nursery production and propagation; site selection, grove design, and planting; cultural practices for young, non-bearing groves and bearing groves; pest, disease, and weed management; harvesting, maturity, and grade standards; and home use. This edition incorporates new regulations, technologies, pests, and diseases, and new issues in marketing and selling citrus. New color plates of major pests and diseases are included. There is no bibliography. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)