I have learned a few things (very few) from this book, but on the whole wish I had found a different book. Like many of these how-to-do it books that purport to be a compendium of everything there are chapters included with little valuable information. It's as though the editor said, "You've got to have a chapter on plums.", so the author includes one that has some general facts but no specific information that would make the reader either run out and buy plums enthusiastically or avoid them entirely. Obviously the author has no knowledge of figs, which are not included. Nut trees are also absent. So the subtitle misrepresents the book.