This classic text comprises a detailed and comprehensive guide to the correct use of windbreaks on fruit plantations, written the seminal botanist and horticulturalist, Liberty Hyde Bailey. Although an antique piece of literature, this handbook contains a wealth of information applicable to modern horticulture and constitutes a definitive guide on the subject - a must-have for commercial growers and novice enthusiasts alike. This text has been immortalised because of its historical and educational value, a piece sure to appeal to collectors of antiquated botanical literature and the work of Liberty Hyde Bailey. Bailey was a seminal American horticulturist, botanist and founder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. This rare text is proudly republished here with a new introductory biography of its author.