Location and Site of the Orchard 27 



shipping station, the transportation facilities, and inciden- 

 tally to the markets. The location of an orchard is its 

 geography. 



The site is specific. It has to do with the exact spot on 

 the farm occupied by the orchard — the land on which the 

 trees are planted. 



All over the country wherever peaches are grown, there 

 are orchards (and many, of which the epitaphs have dis- 

 appeared entirely) that tell the sad story of poorly chosen 

 locations and sites. Not infrequently orchards are planted 

 and cared for with all due regard to the essentials of good 

 management, only to demonstrate in later years that faulty 

 location or site or both make success impossible. Thus, 

 it follows that the future of an orchard is determined in no 

 small way by the wisdom and discrimination exercised pre- 

 liminary to the actual beginnings of the enterprise. The 

 factors having to do with the selection of locations and sites 

 call for further consideration. 



LOCATIONS FOR PEACH ORCHARDS 



Locations should be chosen with reference to the geo- 

 graphical range of the species, the climatic conditions which 

 obtain, their accessibility to the markets, the community 

 interests, the economic conditions, and in many instances 

 the sequence in which the varieties one desires to grow will 

 ripen in comparison with those shipped from other locations 

 or regions and with which competition may be experienced. 



Locations with reference to range of the species. 



The peach is distinctly a temperate-zone fruit and within 

 that zone in its numerous varieties it has a remarkably wide 



