1.0 CLIMATE, 



mucli admire d, and which has given such high reputa- 

 tion to the cider from the Hewes's Crab, the white 

 Crab, the Grey house, Winesap and Harrison, can 

 only be found within the limits here described : hand- 

 some and fair apples are found growing in the Dis- 

 trict of Maine and Nova- Scotia, but they possess lit- 

 tle more of the characteristick flavour of the finer ap- 

 ples of the middle states, than those produced on the 

 hills of St. Domingo or the plains of Georgia: cold 

 and heat are equally necessary to the production of 

 a fine apple; neither must predominate in too great a 

 degree. It is remarked by Knight in his treatise on 

 the fruits of Hereford, that the flavour of the liquor 

 for which particular orchards in that country are cele- 

 brated, is ascribed to their warm and favourable ex- 

 posure in every instance which had come to his know- 

 ledge. A writer of high reputation in our own coun- 

 try, the late Chancellor Livingston, remarks, that the 

 growth of trees in America compared with Europe, is 

 as five to three ; this fact will probably account satis- 

 factorily for the revival of the reputation of several En- 

 glish cider fruits, when transplanted to this country 

 under the influence of ^a more genial climate. In trea- 

 ting of this particular subject, it appears to me most 

 correct, to adopt the rule of the sagacious and practi- 

 cal Miller, that, " although Linnaeus has considered 

 the apple, pear and quince, as belonging to one ge- 

 nus, the distinction between them is founded in 



