SOILS AND EXPOSURES 



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also. In general, however, the question sums up in 

 the statement that peaches require medium soils, 

 neither very light nor very heavy, and that, espe- 

 cially in the southern states, any well-drained soil 

 of good physical texture will be successful with 

 peaches, no matter how much clay it contains. 



An old rule which has often been given by the au- 

 thor for the choice of apple soils cannot go very 



CLEARING STONY PEACH LAND, HALE ORCHARDS 



far wrong also in the choice of peach soils. Ac- 

 cording to this method of judgment, one would 

 choose for apple growing any soil which is thor- 

 oughly well adapted to potato growing. In the 

 middle and the northern states this means rich loam 

 and gravelly well-drained soils. All such land, 

 however, is well suited to peach growing also, and 

 if we modify the rule in favor of somewhat warmer, 



