Relation of Weathejr to Crops 109 



Favorite, Sweetheart, Rattlesnake, Fordhook First, Blue Gem, and 

 Kleckley Sweets. The Chilean is an excellent late variety. 



WHEAT 



{See under Grains) 



" RECAPITULATION 



From the foregoing discussion of the leading crops of the region 

 and the effects of the weather on them, it will be seen that a larger 

 number endure the low^ temperatures that occur than endure well 

 the high ones, a condition the opposite of that existing in the north- 

 ern portion of the country. Instead of crops being grown between 

 two winters, as is the case in the North, the most of them are grown 

 between two summers, the number that grow through the summer 

 here being about the same as live through the winter in the North. 

 Wheat, barley, oats, rye, peas, flax, canaigre, beets, alfalfa, 

 clovers, lupins, vetches, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, spinach, 

 carrots, turnips, radishes, onions, strawberries, olives, dates, oranges, 

 lemons, pomelos, tangerines, loquats, and Eucalypts remain green 

 throughout the winter, and make more or less growth. Of these the 

 small grains, flax, canaigre, beets, clovers, cabbage, cauliflower, 

 lettuce, spinach, carrots, turnips, radishes, onions, olives, and some 

 species of Eucalypts are injured by the lower temperatures of winter. 

 Besides those that grow through winter, beans, Indian corn, 

 potatoes, and bush squashes grow only between the coolest weather 

 of winter and the hot weather of summer, these being, like those 

 Hsted above, sensitive to heat, but also sensitive to extreme cold. 



The crops keeping green through summer are the grain and 

 forage sorghums, millet, cowpeas, peanuts, broom-corn, tobacco, 

 cotton, alfalfa, tomatoes, melons, pumpkins, squashes, some varieties 

 of beans, celery, strawberries, mulberries, persimmons, grapes, figs, 

 plums, nectarines, peaches, apricots, almonds, apples, pears, quinces, 

 walnuts, olives, dates, oranges, lemons, pomelos, pomegranates, 

 loquats, cottonwoods, ashes, and Eucalypts. 



Of the above, the following grow thriftily throughout the hot 

 weather of midsummer: Grain and forage sorghums, cowpeas, 

 tobacco, cotton, olives, dates, and some species of Eucalypts. 

 Of these the date is the one th^t seems to enjoy the summer condi- 

 tions best. 



The crops liable to be injured by spring frosts are corn, potatoes, 

 tomatoes, beans, grapes, peaches, apricots, almonds. The crops that 



