Addresses — A Winter Month in Northern Georgia. 185 



Summing up the foregoing statements, we find the highest con- 

 ditions of hardiness to be: 



1st. Variety, or race; and so we look to Siberia, Russia, Canada 

 and the north generally, for varieties long tested and of approved 

 native vigor and vital force. 



2. A fir7n soil well supplied with the elements of tree growth. 

 This is indicated by the native wood growth or by analysis of soils. 



3. Evenness of temperature, or least possible sudden extremes. 

 This is secured by proximity to large bodies of water, by com- 

 parative elevation, the cooler aspects, and the most open, airy 

 situations. 



4. Culture and training — to secure maturity or ripeness of 

 wood, and that form of tree which is most self-protecting. 



I believe a careful observance of these conditions and of the 

 special adaptation of varieties to soils, will secure general success 

 in fruit-growing, fully equal to that of the most successful of the 

 present time. The pear orchard of Green Bay, and the apple 

 orchard of Mr. Phillips, of La Crosse county, may be repeated in 

 almost every township in the state up to the 44th parallel, and in 

 some townships on every quarter-section of land that has a good 

 native growth of hard wood timber, or on the rolling prairies of the 

 southern sections of the state. 



A WINTER MONTH IN NORTHERN GEORGIA. 



Prop. SEAEING, Milton. 



At least interesting, if not profitable, to the garden or farm 

 cultivator of our state or latitude, is the knowledge of the condi- 

 tion, processes, and practical results of the like profession in other 

 states, countries and latitudes. This knowledge is especially 

 sought for by the nomadic American proprietor, who has no very 

 strong local instincts or attachments, and is ready to turn " carpet 

 bagger" on short notice, and grow up with any new country, west 

 or south. Indeed, it may not be going too far to say that the 

 choicest morceaux of agricultural or horticultural reading, that the 

 average farmer or gardener finds in his periodicals, are not the 

 plain, oft-repeated gospel truths of good seed, thorough tillage, 



